Slumach's Gold: In Search of a Legend

Can$14.95

Slumach's Gold was a Canadian bestseller when it was first published in 1972. This 35th-anniversary edition greatly expands the original, bringing new research, fascinating updates and fresh insights.

Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in 1891, and tracks the birth and growth of a legend: the man's death turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach-the hanged criminal-was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets "the size of walnuts." According to legend, Slumach placed a curse on his hidden motherlode just before he plunged to his death "at the wrong end of a five-strand rope," thereby protecting it from interlopers and trespassers for more than a century.

Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact-along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.

Rick Antonson is president and CEO of Tourism Vancouver. Mary Trainer is a writer and communications coordinator in the Corporate Relations Department at the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Brian Antonson is associate dean of Broadcast and Media Communications at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Rick, Mary and Brian wrote and published Slumach's Gold in 1972. They created Nunaga Publishing and published more than 25 books under this imprint and Antonson Publishing in the 1970s.

 

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