Digging for Gold: A Story of California
Digging for Gold: A Story of California by Horatio, Jr. Alger is available here as the complete text, split into 955 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Grant and His Mother
- Chapter III Rodney Bartlett
- Chapter IV A Terrible Responsibility
- Chapter V Grant Saves the Train
- Chapter VI Grant Orders a New Suit
- Chapter VII Seth Tarbox Makes a Discovery
- Chapter VIII Grant Makes Up His Mind
- Chapter IX All Is Settled
- Chapter X The Long Journey Begins
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII An Indian Encounter
- Chapter XIII In Dire Distress
- Chapter XIV The Solitary Cabin
- Chapter XV The New Acquaintance
- Chapter XVI Arrival at Sacramento
- Chapter XVII Grant Gets a Job
- Chapter XVIII An Unpleasant Adventure
- Chapter XIX A True Friend
- Chapter XX Grant Falls Under Suspicion
- Chapter XXI Benton Is Trapped
- Chapter XXII Pulling Up Stakes
- Chapter XXIII The First Day at the Mines
- Chapter XXIV Grant Has an Adventure
- Chapter XXV Another Lonely Cabin
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII Paul Crambo
- Chapter XXVIII The Beginning of Success
- Chapter XXIX
- Chapter XXX Benton Lays His Plans
- Chapter XXXI Benton Opens the Trunk
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII On to the Golden Gate
- Chapter XXXIV A Startling Incident
- Chapter XXXV A Tragedy
- Chapter XXXVI The Tarbox Family
- Chapter XXXVII
- Chapter XXXVIII Finding the Prodigal
- Chapter XXXIX Grant Hears from Home
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