# Openings in the Old Trail

An audiobook by Bret Harte, read by LibriVox volunteers (7 h 15 min, English).

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

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/22948)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/2535/read)