Digging for Gold: Adventures in California

Before our hero became convalescent, his comrade Douglas was "laid down" with dysentery. In these circumstances, the digging went on slowly, for much of the time of Meyer and Gr...

When next morning arrived, Joe Graddy, true to his word, appeared with the first--if not of the "flood-tide," at least of the morning sun, and Frank told him that, on the previo...

The particular part towards which their steps were directed was Bigbear Gully, a small and comparatively unknown, because recently discovered, gorge, opening out of the great Sa...

Bigbear Gully--so named because of a huge grizzly bear that had been shot there at the commencement of digging operations--was a wild and somewhat gloomy but picturesque mountai...

Next morning Frank and his friends went out to choose their claim. As we have said, the Bigbear Gully was not at that time generally known. A comparatively small number of digge...

When they arrived at Bigbear Gully they found the condition of the people most deplorable, owing to scarcity of provisions, prevailing sickness, and the total absence of physic...

It was the evening of a hot sultry day, when our travellers, fatigued and foot-sore, arrived at the entrance of a small valley not far distant from the intended scene of their f...

If ever there was a man in this world who was passionately fond of painting and cut out for a painter, that man was Frank Allfrey; but fate, in the form of an old uncle, had dec...

We pass over our hero's long voyage round "the Horn," and introduce him in a totally new scene and under widely different circumstances--seated near a magnificent tree of which...