Gold mines and mining, Frontier and pioneer life, Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia Canada 

Chronicles of Canada 

"Agnes C. Laut's The Cariboo Trail is a fascinating history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858. When, in early 1849, a group of ragged miners arrived in the sleepy town of Victoria from California, no one would have believed that a little over ten years later a gold rush would hit the Fraser River. Between 1859 and 1871, thousands of miners and prospectors travelled north and east from the headwaters of the Fraser River, with the hopes of striking it rich. And many did--over the course of twelve years, twenty-five million dollars in gold came from the Cariboo country. Originally published in 1920 as part of the Chronicles of Canada series, Laut's exciting and personalized account of the Cariboo gold rush is filled with tidbits gleaned through conversations with "old-timers" still living on the trail and facts acquired on trips in the Rockies guided by prospectors. From the story of the construction of the famous Cariboo road--"one of the wonders of the world"--And the Overlanders' journey across the width of the continent to details about the techniques and machinery used in the mines and life in the camps, the period, the gold rush, and the Cariboo region are brought to life for the reader." - Abstract may belong to a different version  

Contents:
The Argonauts
The prospector
Cariboo
The overlanders
Crossing the mountains
Quesnel and Kamloops
Life at the Mines
The Cariboo road
Bibliographical note
Index 

Chronicles of Canada
Part I. The first European visitors: volumes 1-2
Part II. The rise of New France: volumes 3-7
Part III. The English invasion: volumes 9-11
Part IV. The beginnings of British Canada: volume 12-14
Part V. The red man in Canada: volumes 15-17
Part VI. Pioneers of the North and West: volumes 18-23
Part VII. The struggle for political freedom: volume 24-27
Part VIII. The growth of nationality: volumes 28-30
Part IX. National highways: volumes 31-32