100 poems about the gold rush, the drive, the experience and the aftermath. The Rush is divided into five parts: The Lust, The Land, The Work, The Life and The Future. Climb the mountain and experience what those early adventurers found.
“I live in a place famed for its Gold Rush history, among people who did not find gold—because those who did have moved on. This odd proximity of imagined wonders to the bitterness just below the surface has created an environment as strange as The Rush itself. Most of us write about the world around us. This is my world.”
None who found gold
Wrote of the love of it
Only empty pockets
Carried the lust
