Gold

“If I don’t pick up more than a hatful of gold a day,” says one eager young man, “I shall be perfectly satisfied.” By then, “Oh, Susannah!” is already carrying the California dream from street corners to crowded meeting rooms.

It is 1849, and news of gold in California has turned laughter into longing. In New York, an inexperienced club of would-be adventurers debates routes and fortunes, while the narrator—an assistant bookkeeper with little money to spare—watches his own hopes gather force. Then Talbot Ward appears: tall, buoyant, and quietly arresting, with eyes that seem to conceal a dangerous spark. He has no patience for the club’s weaker members, and soon takes a particular interest in the narrator. If the road west demands strong companions, what does Ward see in him?

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