gold-fields

They were a serious lot, those Oregoners, being mostly farm folk intent on honest work-not like us California scamps off to the gold-fields.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The bill in Colonel Owens 'store was evidently a version of an advertisement which appeared in the New York Herald in December, 1848, advising emigrants on equipment for the gold-fields, including tombstones. [p. 58] 6.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

After Bartell's husband made a strike in the Nevada gold-fields, Emil was sent away to school and in 1909, at age 14, he entered Bowdoin College and in 1913 graduated with highest honors.

“. . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom.” 2008

I was one of the pioneers to the gold-fields, you know, and made a sufficient fortune there for my wants.

A Changed Man 2006

Within a few weeks, New Caledonia had become a crown colony under James Douglas, Governor of Vancouver Island, and a force of soldiers and lawmakers had been dispatched to the Fraser gold-fields.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

Within a few weeks, New Caledonia had become a crown colony under James Douglas, Governor of Vancouver Island, and a force of soldiers and lawmakers had been dispatched to the Fraser gold-fields.

stampede 2006

The first four months of my visit were spent in various parts of the Sarawak River, from Santubong at its mouth up to the picturesque limestone mountains and Chinese gold-fields of Bow and

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The travelers might have fancied themselves back in those lawless times when the discovery of the first gold-fields deluged the Australian continent with the scum of Europe.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

To the south were the wide spreading plains of Gippsland, with its abundant gold-fields and tall forests.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

They had come for the same reason as the whites, to make money, first of all in the gold-fields.

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000