Synopses & Reviews
Slumach's Gold was a Canadian bestseller when it was first published in 1972. This 35th-anniversary edition greatly expands the original, bringing new research, fascinating updates and fresh insights.Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in 1891, and tracks the birth and growth of a legend: the man's death turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach-the hanged criminal-was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets the size of walnuts. According to legend, Slumach placed a curse on his hidden motherlode just before he plunged to his death at the wrong end of a five-strand rope, thereby protecting it from interlopers and trespassers for more than a century.Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact-along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.
Synopsis
Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach--the hanged criminal--was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets -the size of walnuts.- The stories claimed that Slumach had placed a curse on a hidden motherlode to protect it from interlopers and trespassers just before he plunged to his death -at the wrong end of a five-strand rope.- Although many have attempted to find Slumach's gold over the past 100 years, following tantalizing clues that are part of the legend itself, none have succeeded--or have they?
Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact--along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.