Many of these books told people what they wanted to hear -- that finding gold in the Yukon was easy.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Jack London's many stories truthfully explained just how hard it was to be a gold seeker in eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

History records say that in only four years the area around Dawson produced more than fifty-one million dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

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

On January twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-eight, a man named James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in the territory of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

The first ship carrying the gold seekers arrived in the port town of Skagway,Alaska, on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

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

That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Homestake operated as a gold mine for one hundred twenty-five years before closing about nine years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

We were extremely lucky. In the winter of eighteen sixty-five we found rocks that held gold.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

After the fighting ended, the leader of the Goths is said to have demanded five-thousand pounds of gold and three thousand pounds of pepper.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

He received a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in nineteen ninety-five.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Each one hoped that the place he claimed panned out well - had some gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Many non-Mormons passed through the Salt Lake area on their way to the gold fields.

VOA: special.2009.06.04