The Silver Horde
Author(s): Rex Beach
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Published 1900 Onward
Narrators: Lynne T, Mike Pelton, Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022), Michele Fry, Phil Schempf, Rookieblue
Number of Chapters: 27
Length: 10 hours and 59 minutes
Language: English
The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To accomplish this he must overcome the relentless opposition of the "salmon trust," a fictionalized Alaska Packers' Association, which undercuts his financing, sabotages his equipment, incites a longshoremen's riot and bribes his fishermen to quit. The story line includes a love interest as the protagonist is forced to choose between his fiance, a spoiled banker's daughter, and an earnest roadhouse operator, a woman of "questionable virtue." (Summary by Wikipedia)