By Linda J. Bottjer

Fueled via the dream to strike it wealthy, prospectors flocked to California in the course of the gold rush. but the cruel way of life and backbreaking paintings led many to early graves. subscribe to writer Linda Bottjer on a journey via Gold Country's so much chilling--and true--haunted stories. stories equivalent to the hangman of Placerville, whose specific wheeze is an indication of his persevered presence. Or the Georgetown miner whose unrequited love for a far more youthful woman of the evening unearths him nonetheless pining for her in demise as he did in existence. And in Coloma, the ghost of James Marshall is expounded to live at the lonely hilltop the place his cabin and monument now stand. those tales, and so forth, trap the ghostly spirit of Gold Country.

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