In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . -^,.. CHAPTER XVIII. THE GOLD FINDS OF HISTORY. Gold in the days of Abraham—Solomons expeditions to Ophir—Edomites asArgonauts—Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru—Early attempts by theEnglish to find gold in America—North Carolina an Eldorado—TheGeorgian intrusion—The days of the Forty-niners—John Marshall and hisend—Australian and Klondike nuggets compared—The Frazer River craze—The Kaf
In richest Alaska and the gold fields of the Klondike; how they were found ..together with a history of this wonderful land from its discovery to the present day ..and practical information for gold seekers . -^,.. CHAPTER XVIII. THE GOLD FINDS OF HISTORY. Gold in the days of Abraham—Solomons expeditions to Ophir—Edomites asArgonauts—Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru—Early attempts by theEnglish to find gold in America—North Carolina an Eldorado—TheGeorgian intrusion—The days of the Forty-niners—John Marshall and hisend—Australian and Klondike nuggets compared—The Frazer River craze—The Kaffer circus—South African mines capitalized at $1,500,000,000—Fourhundred years of gold digging—The gold kings of the world. C^ENTURIES upon centuries have come and gones since the stories of fabulous gold finds first firedthe hearts and imaginations of men. Our records proba-bly do not go back far enough to include the earliest ofthese. That there were such epochs of gold discovery inancient history it is impossible to doubt, though trans-portation was so difficult in those days that rushes ofgold seekers to the diggings must have been limited. Itis hardly to be supposed that the
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