Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia

Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia

Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British ColumbiaFrom the position of a small Hudson...
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Author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive,1854-1918
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Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia

Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia

$19.99 $9.99

Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive,1854-1918
Format: eBook
Language: English

Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia

From the position of a small Hudson Bay station she had suddenly risen in '58 to the importance of a city of 17,000 inhabitants, from which high estate she had fallen again with such rapidity, that in 1861 there were only 5000 left in her to mourn the golden days of the "Frazer River humbug." In '48 the gold fever broke out in California, and for ten years, in the words of an eye-witness, 50,000 adventurers of every hue, language, and clime were drifting up and down the slopes of the Great Sierra, in search of gold, ready to rush this way or that at the first rumour of a fresh find. In '58 California's neighbour, British Columbia, took the fever. The cry of "Gold, gold!" was raised upon the Frazer, and the wharves of San Francisco groaned[Pg 10] beneath the burden of those who sought to take ship for this fresh Eldorado. In a year most of these pilgrims had returned from the new shrine, poorer by one year of their short lives, beaten back by the grim canyons of the Frazer river, or cheated of their reward by those late floods, which kept the golden sands hidden from their view. In '58 and '59 the miner cursed Victoria as a city of hopes unfulfilled, and left her to dream on undisturbed of the greater days to come. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45870
Author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
Release Date: Jun 3, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Hindley, Godfrey C

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