Prentice Mulford's Story Life By Land And Sea
By Prentice Mulford
Length8h 36m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "One June morning, when I was a boy, Captain Eben Latham came to our house, and the first gossip he unloaded was, that "them stories about finding gold in Californy was all true." It was "wash day" and our folks and some of the neighbors were gathered in the "wash house" while the colored help soused her fat black arms in the suds of the wash tub. That was the first report I heard from California. Old Eben had been a man of the sea; was once captured by a pirate, and when he told the story, which he did once a week, he concluded by rolling up his trousers and showing the bullet-scars he had received. California then was but a blotch of yellow on the schoolboy's map of 1847. It was associated only with hides, tallow, and Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast." It was thought of principally in connection with long-horned savage cattle, lassoes, and Mexicans. Very near this in general vacancy and mystery was the entire region west of the Rocky Mountains. What was known as the Indian Territory covered an area now occupied by half a dozen prosperous States. Texas was then the Mecca of adventurers and people who found it advisable to leave home suddenly. The phrase in those days, "Gone to Texas," had a meaning almost equivalent to "Gone to the ——." Then California took its place."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prentice Mulford's
20CHAPTER XIX. “JIMTOWN.”
2CHAPTER I. SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
21CHAPTER XX. THE ROMANCE OF AH SAM AND HI SING.
3CHAPTER II. GOING TO SEA.
22CHAPTER XXI. ON A JURY.
4CHAPTER III. GETTING MY SEA LEGS ON.
23CHAPTER XXII. SOME CULINARY REMINISCENCES.
5CHAPTER IV. MUCH WATER AND MUTINY.
24CHAPTER XXIII. THE COPPER FEVER.
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6CHAPTER V. SAN FRANCISCO IN 1856.
25CHAPTER XXIV. RISE AND FALL OF COPPERHEAD CITY.
7CHAPTER VI. AS A SEA COOK.
26CHAPTER XXV. PROSPECTING.
8CHAPTER VII. SIGHTS WHILE COOKING.
27CHAPTER XXVI. HIGH LIFE.
9CHAPTER VIII. WHALING IN MARGUERITA BAY.
28CHAPTER XXVII. LEAVING HIGH LIFE.
10CHAPTER IX. OUR BUTTER FIENDS.
29CHAPTER XXVIII. THE LAST OF HIGH LIFE.
11CHAPTER X. GUADALUPE.
30CHAPTER XXIX. ON THE ROSTRUM.
12CHAPTER XI. AT THE GOLD MINES.
31CHAPTER XXX. RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
13CHAPTER XII. SWETT’S BAR.
32CHAPTER XXXI. AN EARLY CALIFORNIA CANVASS.
14CHAPTER XIII. ONE DAY’S DIGGING.
33CHAPTER XXXII. ANOTHER CHANGE.
15CHAPTER XIV. THE MINER’S RAINY DAY.
34CHAPTER XXXIII. EDITING VS. WRITING.
16CHAPTER XV. THE MINER’S SUNDAY.
35CHAPTER XXXIV. OPINIONS JOURNALISTIC.
17CHAPTER XVI. THE COW FEVER.
36CHAPTER XXXV. RECENT ANTIQUITY.
18CHAPTER XVII. RED MOUNTAIN BAR.
37CHAPTER XXXVI. GOING HOME.
19CHAPTER XVIII. MY CALIFORNIA SCHOOL.
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