ton and Cheadle's _North West Passage_, 1865;
Palliser's _Report_, 1859; Waddington's _Fraser River Mines_--all
afford sidelights on this adventurous era. On the prospector's daily
life there is no book. That must be learned from him on the trail; and
on many camp trips in the Rockies, with prospectors for guides, I have
picked up such facts as I could.

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INDEX

Alexander, Mr, his tragic experience on the Fraser, 77-8; quoted, 93,
111.

Anderson, James, the Scottish miner poet, 50, 90, 95-8.

Antler Creek, 44.

Barker, Billy, 47.

Barkerville, 46; life in, 94-8; the Cariboo Road terminus, 103.

Begbie, Sir Matthew Baillie, chief justice of British Columbia, 37, 38,
39, 88; his popularity with the miners, 91-4, 102, 108, 111.

Big Canyon, 34.

Black, John, Presbyterian 'apostle of the Red River,' 57.

British Columbia, proclaimed a crown colony, 37; and the building of
the Cariboo Road, 100-1; and the miners, 109. See Cariboo, Fraser
river, Vancouver.

Cameron, Cariboo, 47-8, 50.

Cameron, Mrs, 89.

Cariboo, prospecting in, 41-5; the mad rush for, 45-6, 51-2, 53-4; the
mines a freakish gamble, 47-8; changes in, 107-9. See Barkerville and
Overlanders.

Cariboo Road, 19; the building of the, 82, 99-103; its effect on the
mines, 107-9; stagecoach travel on, 103-7.

Cariboo Trail, perils of the, 50-51; evolution of, 64. See Cariboo
Road.

China Bar, 35.

Cridge, Rev. Edward, 6.

Dallas, Alexander, governor of Rupert's Land, 55.

Deitz, Billy, 44, 50.

Douglas, Sir James, governor of Vancouver Island, 5, 8, 10; quells
disturbances on the Fraser, 35-7, 37-8; governor of British Columbia,
37, 38; builds the Cariboo Road, 101.

Edmonton, the Overlanders at, 61.

Finlayson, Roderick, chief trader at Victoria, 1-3, 5, 6, 8

Fort George, the Overlanders at, 81, 84.

Fort Langley, British Columbia proclaimed at, 37, 100.

Fraser, Colin, and the Overlanders, 64-5.

Fraser, Simon, explorer, 81.

Fraser Canyon 14, 19, 64

Fraser river, the quest for gold on, 8-9, 10, 11-22, 27-32, 51-2;
disturbances among the Indians, 33-5; and the whites, 37-40; the
Overlanders on, 70, 71-2. See Gold-fields, Miners.

Gold, prospecting for, 17-18, 20-21, 27-8; the lure of the 'float,'
21-2, 23-5, 25-6, 28; mining for, 29-30. See Gold-fields, Miners.

Gold-fields, the price of commodities in, 13, 16-17, 29, 47, 96, 105;
'claim jumping,' 40; unused gold a curse, 88-9, 104; hurdy-g