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The Gate Special Report
Flash in the Pan
Placer Gold

Gold. It's what started the whole mad, magnificent migration west. And Carl Nolte found some modern masters of the craft at the end of the Gold Rush Trail.



Featured Stories


The Promised Land of Gold (8/27)
Exhausted Forty-Niners reached rainbow's end

Later Chapters of Writers' Lives (8/27)
What became of the Gold Rush diarists

Read Carl Nolte's
Postcards
Special to The Gate


 

ILLUSTRATIONS
The Promised Land
Gold country at last
Overland Trail
Detailed route map
Oregon or California?
3 main destinations beckoned
Sutters Mill
The way it was (painting)
Sutters Mill
The way it is (QuickTime VR)
PHOTOS
Dive, He Said
The gold lies deep
Flecks 'n' Specks
Eventually it all pans out
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