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The Golden Dream
R. M. Ballantyne
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A thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, complete with everything from mining techniques to societal attitudes. You’ll feel like you’re in the diggings.
A thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, complete with everything from mining techniques to societal attitudes. You’ll feel like you’re in the diggings.
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“Edward Sinton.”
“Here, hand me that ink-horn, and the pen. There,” continued the man, pushing the paper towards him, “I have made over to you the old boat, and the ground it lies on. Both are mine. The piece of ground is marked off by four posts. Take care of the—”
The man’s voice sank to a mere whisper; then it ceased suddenly. When Ned looked at him again, he started, for the cold hand of death had sealed his lips for ever.
A feeling of deep, intense pity filled the youth’s heart, as he. . . Read More
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A great adventure story during the time of gold being discovered in California. Starts in England as a young man sails to California. Some adventures at sea but most are in California and in the gold fields. Great close up and personal stories of what it was really like then but Ballantyne also has
Gold fever (worldwide) in the middle of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth Century’s often reached epidemic proportions and often with as devastating effect of any plague. As to be expected, in a gold rush you have winner and losers. Losers are the vast majority but the least heard or