![]() ![]() But the work was slow with only two men and not much equipment. He said we had uncovered over $1 million dollars worth of gold in only three months. In the winter of eighteen sixty-five we found rocks that held gold. I spent almost a year searching for gold with another former soldier, Captain James Powell, also of Virginia. ![]() I decided the best plan was to search for gold in the great deserts of the American Southwest. At the close of the Civil War I found myself without a home, without money and without work. I can only tell of the ten years my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave. I know the human mind will not believe what it cannot understand. I who have died two times and am still alive. Someday I will die the real death from which there is no escape. Yet, I feel that I cannot go on living forever. So far as I can remember, I have always been a man of about 30. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. Jill Robbins developed the video and supplemental materials. The voice of John Carter was Shep O’Neal. At first he is a captive, then a warrior, and after many battles, a prince of a royal family. There, the man meets strange beings and sees strange sights. The book is called “A Princess of Mars.” It is the first book in a series that Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the 1800s. Today, we begin a series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]()
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