Two young men in the gold fields of California spend a last evening together as one of them, very sick, confronts his own imminent death. The tenderness between them may seem idealized, but you understand by listening to this story how premature death from accident and disease haunted the lives of far more westerners than death by violence.

Performed by Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Bradley Smith, Danny Gavigan, Eric Messner, Joe Brack, Nanette Savard, Casie Platt, Dylan Lynch, Richard Rohan, Kimberly Gilbert, Tim Carlin, Colleen Delany, Michael Glenn, Ken Jackson, James Konicek, Tim Pabon, Catherine Aselford, Christopher Graybill, Ted Stoddard, Patrick Bussink, Yasmin Tuazon, Gary Telles, Michael John Casey, David Coyne, James Keegan, Ren Kasey, Mort Shelby.