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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Luck of Roaring Camp. It was written by Bret Harte. Here is Henry Menro with our story. Roaring Camp was the noisiest gold mining town in California. More than one hundre

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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Last week we brought you the first of four programs called A Princess of Mars. Our story is from a series of books by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. They are science fiction stories, a mix

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The Special English program American Stories. Welcome to the fourth and last part of our program A Princess of Mars. The story is from a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Last week we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the g

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Now, the Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is Keesh. It was written by Jack London. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Keesh lived at the edge of the Polar Sea. He had seen thirteen suns in the Eskimo way of keepin

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Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. Mr. Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not know where she

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Now the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called Mr. Black. It was written by American reporter Charles Kuralt. It is from his book A life on the road. For many years, Charles Kuralt travelled across the United States t

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story today is A Jury of her peers. It was written by Susan Glaspell. Here is Kay Gallant with our story. Martha Hale, like all good farmwives, like to finish any job she began. But when Sheriff P

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