The Cariboo Trail

Roderick Finlayson doubts the yellow nuggets are gold—until a hammer flattens one into a leaf as fine and flexible as silk. Then the sleepy fur post begins to stir.

Agnes C. Laut’s chronicle opens in Victoria, Vancouver Island, where, in 1849, silent, ragged prospectors arrive carrying picks instead of guns, and gold instead of explanations. Finlayson, chief trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company, wants no miners disturbing the fur trade; but rumors keep drifting out of the wilderness, and in 1858 the city’s quiet breaks beneath a flood of men, tents, and impossible promises. Across the Fraser, swollen waters and treacherous trails await those chasing fortune, while the old order slips beyond anyone’s control. What will the river yield—and what will the gold rush cost?

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