Cowboy Poetry The Gold Rush Trail By Mark McMillan
It was only a trail but it made BC the rumour of gold to be got for free. From San Francisco to Victoria in spring of ‘58 some 30,000 miners arrived at a steady rate. Then up the Fraser on a paddle wheel ship through the canyon, for some, the end of the trip. Only 5000 made it, these were the hard core men they all worked and fought but not many would win. There was over 25,000 went home in defeat but a man named Barker struck gold at 52 feet. In 1861 the wagon road began, in Lillooet then to Barkerville in ‘65 the stage could get. Over 100,000 miles, 1500 people and 4 million in gold the stage line had carried when only one year old. To feed all these hungry miners with all their gold came the cowboy and cattlemen with beef to be sold. Today we’ve the history for no miners did stay but cowboys and cattlemen are still here today!
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