Reality Of A Dream (roughing I

Part I of Essay
With respect to the fallacies that got many of the miners going, Holmes and Fisher tell a story of two men who staked a claim in the middle of a pasture. The two men said the claim had been assayed at two thousand dollars to the ton. After a rancher read the claim hangin ....

Part II of Essay
.... the two men who staked the claim sat and watched as all the greedy people invaded the area just because they said the land was rich with gold. This shows how greed and the dream of making it rich blinded the peoples reasoning. If the people would have been clear of mind they would have asked questions and then asked more questions before embarking on such an involved venture. Holmes and Fisher summed up the reason for the fiasco when they said, " in every man's mind was the thought of being late and not getting a claim and in every women' ....