Silver and Gold (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Adventure Tale of Luck and Love in a Western Mining CampBy Dane Coolidge
Length6h 57m
About this audiobook
In Silver and Gold, Dane Coolidge turns the mining frontier into a stage for ambition, risk, and moral testing. The novel follows the turbulent world of prospectors, speculators, and hard-bitten desert men drawn by the promise of mineral wealth. Written in a clean, vigorous prose shaped by observation rather than ornament, it belongs to the early twentieth-century Western tradition that treated the frontier not merely as romance, but as a social and economic proving ground. Coolidge's attention to landscape, labor, and local speech gives the book a documentary force beneath its adventure plot. Coolidge was especially well equipped to write such a story. A naturalist, photographer, and prolific chronicler of the American West, he knew the deserts, mining camps, ranches, and borderlands from direct experience. His fiction often reflects a writer fascinated by survival, resource extraction, and the codes of men living beyond settled institutions. Silver and Gold grows naturally from that intimate knowledge. Readers interested in classic Western fiction, mining-camp narratives, or the literature of frontier capitalism will find this novel rewarding. It offers action and atmosphere, but also a shrewd study of greed, endurance, and character under pressure.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Romance
Length6 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Wyoming (Annotated)
2Silver and Gold
3CHAPTER I THE GROUND-HOG
4CHAPTER II BIG BOY
5CHAPTER III HOBO STUFF
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6CHAPTER IV CASH
7CHAPTER V MOTHER TRIGEDGO
8CHAPTER VI THE ORACULUM
9CHAPTER VII THE EMINENT BUTTINSKY
10CHAPTER VIII THE SILVER TREASURE
11CHAPTER IX BIBLE-BACK MURRAY
12CHAPTER X SIGNS AND OMENS
13CHAPTER XI THE LADY OF THE SYCAMORES
14CHAPTER XII STEEL ON STEEL
15CHAPTER XIII SWEDE LUCK
16CHAPTER XIV THE STRIKE
17CHAPTER XV A NIGHT FOR LOVE
18CHAPTER XVI A FRIEND
19CHAPTER XVII BROKE
20CHAPTER XVIII THE HAND OF FATE
21CHAPTER XIX THE MAN-KILLER
22CHAPTER XX JUMPERS AND TENORS
23CHAPTER XXI BROKE AGAIN
24CHAPTER XXII THE ROCK-DRILLING CONTEST
25CHAPTER XXIII THE HEART OF HIS BELOVED
26CHAPTER XXIV COLONEL DODGE
27CHAPTER XXV THE ANSWER
28CHAPTER XXVI THE COURSE OF THE LAW
29CHAPTER XXVII LIKE A HOG ON ICE
30CHAPTER XXVIII PAROLE
31CHAPTER XXIX THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF
32Memorable Quotes
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