“This bug is to make my fortune,” he continued, with a triumphant smile, “to reinstate me in my family possessions. Is it any wonder then, that I prize it?
Since fortune has thought fit to bestow it upon me, I have only to use it properly and I shall arrive at the gold.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Gold Bug”
Gold fever is infectious. Not in a flu-like way. Instead, it captures men’s minds and passions, and lingers with them forever. Ron Feldman has it ... and has had it all o

April 2005
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Western Books & Movies
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- Has the Lost Dutchman Mine Been Found?
- On Her Own
- “Giddy Up” Gals Getaway
- “I Hold for No One!” Road Agents Attempt to Rob Kinnear’s Stage Near Contention
- No Bull(s)
- On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Boots and Saddles
- A Western Jubilee: Songs and Stories of The American West
- Welcome to Woody Creek
- The ’92 Reel West Winchester
- Pathfinder to Nevada History
- Divide and Conquer
- Stronger Proof
- Reflections
- Slant 6 Cowboys
- I’m Torn
- Molly Venter