Gabriel Konrai. Adventure novel

Francis Bret Gart (1836–1902) - American writer. He gained fame with a realistic image of life and morals of gold miners in California. The novel Gabriel Konrai (1875–1876) is a typical western. There is a silver mine, and Mexicans, and love, and insidiousness, and deadly, and, of course, a happy ending. The main character, by whose name is the novel, is a simple -minded prospector. The hard life was not easy for the work: he was circled around his finger, a girl who later became his wife, and then almost condemned his sister to the execution ...
This book was especially popular at the end of the 19th century, but in subsequent times it did not lose its attractiveness. For her motives, the Maxim Gorky film studio shot in 1977 the film Armed and very dangerous. Listen to the audio version of the famous novel. Despite its venerable age, it sounds quite modern