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| Title: | Slumach's Gold
: In Search of a Legend |
| Author: | Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer & Brian Antonson |
| ISBN: | 1894974352 : 9781894974356 |
| Illustrations: | 50 b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Weight: | .222 Kg. |
| Published: | Heritage House Publishing - October 2007 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Local history |
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 mother lode 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.
