RICK ANTONSON

Slumach's Gold​

In Search of a Legend - and a Curse

 

NEW 2024 EDITION TO BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 29

“Slumach’s Gold is one of North America’s most famous lost treasures” Adam Palmer, Deadman’s Curse
 

Full of intrigue, adventure, greed, and tragedy, the enduring legend of Slumach's Gold is examined in riveting detail in this newly expanded edition of a bestselling classic. 

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Newly expanded and revised, Slumach’s Gold: In Search of a Legend—and a Curse chronicles Canada’s most enduring lost-mine mystery. For more than 130 years, people have been captivated by the story of a secret cache of gold with nuggets “the size of walnuts,” supposedly buried near Pitt Lake in southwestern BC. Knowledge of its exact whereabouts died with Slumach, a Katzie Nation man executed for murder in 1891.