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Ch. 2: Gold Fever

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Gold Fever
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With a pathetic faith in the integrity of the inted word, the emigrants turned to guidebooks r light and leading through the wilderness. Fremont's reports were reprinted again and ain, and studied to tatters during that winter
1848.
Books like that shown right, the work of a ;ver young man on his way, he hoped, to be ler of Oregon and California, gave in addition
glowing descriptions of the goal, some "time-ving" variations of the route.
There was a little too much cleverness about in those days. Hastings was clever; Henry I. Simpson (left) was clever; a pity they could not have been a little more critical. For these were but a sample of many such misleading documents which fed the excitement and sent trusting and incapable folk after an impossible dream by ways that existed largely in the imagination.
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