Gold Fever

Back as far as man could remember, gold had been that which everyone sought; and every time someone would claim to have discovered some of it in a different place, there would be a mad dash to place a claim on a spot of ground that had yielded what was thought to be a rich strike. Sometimes it was, and sometimes it was not. But if it was fool’s gold or the real thing, it usually became an important discovery. The fool’s gold often turned out to be iron ore and became a source of work to a lot of hungry families.