Openings in the Old Trail

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Read by Mark Leder

Nine short stories by Bret Harte who, in 1870, was the highest paid author in the U.S. Was he "a whispering pine of the Sierras, transplanted to Fifth Avenue", as Andrew Carnegie would have it, or was he, as Mark Twain said, "The Immortal Bilk"? - Summary by Mark Leder

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A Mercury of the Foot-Hills, Part One 33:58 Read by Mark Leder
A Mercury of the Foot-Hills, Part Two 27:57 Read by Mark Leder
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, Part One 34:05 Read by Mark Leder
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, Part Two 41:41 Read by Mark Leder
The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel, Part One 19:09 Read by Mark Leder
The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel, Part Two 24:57 Read by Mark Leder
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, Part One 24:04 Read by Mark Leder
A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance, Part Two 33:29 Read by Mark Leder
The Reincarnation of Smith, Part One 25:16 Read by Mark Leder
The Reincarnation of Smith, Part Two 37:19 Read by Mark Leder
Lanty Foster's Mistake 39:47 Read by Mark Leder
An Ali Baba of the Sierras 22:46 Read by Mark Leder
Miss Peggy's Proteges 28:28 Read by Mark Leder
The Goddess of Excelsior 41:47 Read by Mark Leder