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Running time: 8 hours, 21 minutes
Summary from Librivox: While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety of harrowing circumstances. Using their knowledge of Morse code, the science of telegraphs, and the operation of railroads, the boys stir in native resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and when the occasion demands it, raw courage to effect rescues, thwart thieves, and solve mysteries. If Tom Swift had lived in the nineteenth century, he could not have had more exciting escapades! (Summary by Mark F. Smith for Librivox)
01 One Kind of Wireless 00:26:20
02 An Original Emergency Battery 00:15:19
03 A Tinker Who Made Good 00:24:05
04 The Other Tinker Also Makes Good 00:15:40
05 The Electrical Detective 00:21:25
06 Jack Has His Adventure 00:17:53
07 A Race Through the Flames 00:16:15
08 The Secret Telegram 00:16:31
09 Jack Plays Reporter, With Unexpected Results 00:21:15
11 The Haunted Station 00:22:57
12 In a Bad Fix, And Out 00:21:58
13a Part 1, Professor Click, Mind-Reader 00:20:46
13b Part 2, Professor Click, Mind-Reader 00:23:26
14 The Last of the Freight Thieves 00:25:16
16 A Dramatic Flagging 00:19:44
17 Wilson Again Distinguishes Himself 00:25:16
18 With the Construction Train 00:22:57
19 The Enemy’s Hand Again, and a Capture 00:21:59