Everyone wanted gold. They took their paper money and their silver to the government and exchanged them for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

He was a mine manager in Leadville who developed a way to safely mine for gold deeper than before.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

During those long summer days, The Luck was carried up the mountain to the place where the men were digging for gold.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

I decided the best plan was to search for gold in the great deserts of the American Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

I spent almost a year searching for gold with another former soldier, Captain James Powell, also of Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The government would pay for the silver with paper money -- treasury notes -- which could be exchanged for gold or silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Other men,also looking for gold, had reached the Stanislau hills of California many years before I did.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

We slept on the hard ground, ate canned beans from cold metal plates and spent our days in the difficult search for gold.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Gold was discovered there. Treaties and religion meant nothing to the white miners who rushed to the Black Hills to search for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

He noted how people throughout the nation had been exchanging their paper money and silver for gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Many of those who went west to search for gold stayed to become farmers or storekeepers.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

In the spring of 1837, the demand on banks for gold and silver grew too heavy.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

When he was twenty-one, he went to search for gold in Alaska and Canada.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

They also had mules to ride, and picks and pans to search for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The banks stopped honoring their promises to exchange their paper money for gold.

VOA: special.2009.01.01