A Celebration of Western Movies… Pardner!
Santy Anno / The Kingston Trio
Gold??
Most people were just shoveling gravel and whistling Dixie.
It was not glorious.
Law and Order …
Self enforcement …
Your weight in Gold ??
With a little help from a nearby rail …
I’m worth $1,352,949 more than Rose.
(The only time I can think that it would actually Pay to be fat)
Barkerville, British Columbia / Caribou Mountains
Quesnel, British Columbia
Romantic I tell ya.
On our recent (short) Vancouver Island holiday, Rose got wind of an exhibit at the Royal Victoria Museum called Gold Rush! El Dorado in BC.
I knew this would be an excellent exhibit about an important – and one of Canada’s greatest Western events – The Caribou Gold Rush.
What would US and Canadian history be like without the several gold rushes that opened up the Western territories? Very different I assure you. Not many ‘gold rushers’ found gold, but they poured into these unsettled territories – thus settling and opening up the great Western wilderness.
First you get to see an impressive IMAX presentation
O what to do with all this gold …
I can think of a couple of things …
