Slumach's Gold: In Search of a Legend-and a Curse

Newly expanded and revised, Slumach’s Gold: In Search of a Legend chronicles Canada’s most enduring lost-mine mystery. For more than 130 years, people have been captivated by the story of a secret cache of gold with nuggets “the size of walnuts,” supposedly buried along the Pitt River in southwestern BC. Knowledge of its exact whereabouts died with Slumach, a Katzie Nation man executed for murder in 1891. Slumach, according to rumours that spread like wildfire in the years following his dea...