An old man nearing seventy looks back on the year he caught gold fever and sailed for California. Lightly fictionalised from Payson’s own experience, the book follows the voyage out and the hard toil of washing gravel on a burning river bar for four dollars a day, with the rough company and odd characters of the mining camps.
A humorous, clear-eyed counterweight to the legends of the Gold Rush, written by a man who was there. Download the free EPUB.