It was a national policy, the Gold Standard vs The Silver and it was/is complicated. Historically the U.S had used both gold and silver as a basis...
High Grading In mining lingo, high grading was simply pilfering ore from the mine one’s employer...
In mining lingo, high grading was simply pilfering ore from the mine one’s employer. A miner might take a few choice pieces of ore home with him at...
Infamous Buried Treasure Claimed to Have Been Found An anonymous treasure hunter has discovered Forrest Fenn's $2 million treasure trove in the Rocky Mountains.
Ten years after renowned 89-year-old Santa Fe art dealer and True Westerner award-winner Forrest Fenn secretly hid a treasure of gold, gems and rare...
Tall Tale Another Old West legend gets knocked down.
Sometimes the stories just aren’t true—and our friends point that out. Recently, we printed a blog entry about a massacre in Sailor’s Diggins,...
Salting A Gold Mine The game of buying and selling a worthless mine could conceivably become a matter of who could outwit whom...
Mining Camp author Brete Harte wrote: "The ways of a man with a maid are strange, but tame, when compared to a man with a mine when buying or...
Early California Gold Camps Those early California gold camps with their boardwalks and muddy streets, false-front buildings and tent dwellings were as vivacious at their names implied...
Those early California gold camps with their boardwalks and muddy streets, false-front buildings and tent dwellings were as vivacious at their names...
Johnny Lingo: Nothing That Glitters Is Gold
Pretty much everyone knows what “just joshing you” means, but how did this common substitute to “pulling a leg” or teasing someone found its way...