![]() His journal is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life.ĭalton was known throughout the Northland for his courage and the fortunes he made in frontier trading and mining. James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent–South Pass on the western trails. South Pass, 1868: James Chisholm’s journal of the Wyoming gold rush. Other stories tell of modern miners and their quest for hidden wealth in the hundreds of mountains and valleys of the West. Stories of lost gold and silver mines carved out of the earth by Spaniards and Mexicans. Out of the dust: Utah’s lost mines and hidden treasures. Adult Winter Reading Program – On the Winter Reading Program Cartridge ![]()
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