Yosemite Valley was crawling with prospectors and timber merchants when Carleton Watkins visited in 1859-61.
Filled with prospectors and the entrepreneurs who mined them, Whiskeytown had folks who looked after one another, but also looked long and hard at anyone intruding on their claims or their community.
Rhyolite was a Nevada boom town (named for an abundant local mineral) complete with prospectors, gold mines, investors, newspapers, saloons and more: "Each week more buildings lined the streets: / An ice cream parlor served up sweets, / The opera house rang out with song, / And townsfolk, now ten thousand strong, / enjoyed their socials and their sports, / The symphony, the tennis courts".
The Big Trend Virtual shopping is today's gold rush with prospectors digging for deals on Web sites like mysimon.com owned by CNET Networks and eBay's Shopping.com.
Legend has it that the Colorado town of Telluride, or "to hell you ride," got its name to reflect its boisterous character as a late 19th-century mining boom town filled with prospectors, gaming parlors and brothels.
On July 15 , 1897 a ship with prospectors and their bonanza tied up in San Francisco.
At the onset of the initial 1883 gold rush in the nearby Coeur d'Alene mining district, Spokane became popular with prospectors, offering low prices on everything "from a horse to a frying pan".
19: First ship leaves for Klondike Aug. 16: Ex-mayor Wood from Seattle leaves San Francisco on his ship Humboldt with prospectors for Klondike (reaches St. Michael Aug. 29 but is forced to spend the winter on Yukon River) Sep.
That's where Gabriel Schulze, scion of the Newmont Mining fortune, with a prospector's taste for risk and opportunity, comes in.
It may sound crazy, but it's the exact kind of conversation you would have with a prospector during the 1800′s: "I have a plot of land where there's a vein of gold as big as my fist, but I don't have the money to develop it".
