When gold seeker Edward Jackson set out for California during the Great Gold Rush in the US his diary entry on May lamented his grueling wagon journey marked by disease and death ldquo O do not leave my bones here rdquo he wrote ldquo If possible let them lay at home rdquo Another gold-seeker named John Walker penned ldquo It is the most complete lottery that you can imagine I cannot advise any person to come rdquo Walker in fact returned home and succeeded at farming ranching and state politics When a family member took Walker rsquo s yellowing letters
[... more]
