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.