# Handbook to the new Gold-fields

Author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

Genre: Children's Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23389

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Handbook+to+the+new+Gold-fields+Ballantyne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

"Destiny, which has lately riveted our attention on the burning plains of the extreme East," says the _Times_ of 9th July, "now claims our solicitude for the auriferous mountains and rushing rivers of the Far West and the shores of the remote Pacific. What most of us know of these ultra-occidental regions may be summed up in a very few words. We have most of us read Washington Irving's charming narrative of `Astoria,' sympathised with the untimely fate of Captain Thorn and his crew, and read with breathless interest the wanderings of the pilgrims to the head waters of the Columbia. After thirty years, the curtain rises again on the stormy period of the Ashburton Treaty, when the `patriots...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/handbook-to-the-new-gold-fields-23389/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/handbook-to-the-new-gold-fields-23389/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/handbook-to-the-new-gold-fields-23389/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/handbook-to-the-new-gold-fields-23389/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/handbook-to-the-new-gold-fields-23389/chapters/3/index.md)