GOLD FEVER! In the days of 1849, when gold was struck at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento City, a kind of madness raged across America. Sober bankers from Boston left wives and children and took passage West...Sailors in San Francisco harbor jumped s...
LEADVILLE, COLORADO 1879 SILVER IN THE HILLS, FIRE IN THE SKY, BLOOD IN THE STREETS Morgan Douglass, a tough and sinewy prospector down on his luck, thought his troubles were over when he struck a rich vein of silver in the hills outside the bo...