The Gold Seekers: Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California

A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that—for the first time—ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.

Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the US Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California and Colorado, including how the Virginia, Carolina and Georgia gold miners abandoned their mine...