Excerpt from Gold, Gold, in Cariboo: A Story of Adventure in British Columbia In '48 the gold fever broke out in California, and for ten years, in the words Of an eye-witness, 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.