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Prospecting for a fun time

Life, Napamon Roongwitoo, Published on 27/09/2012

» It was the afternoon of the Luckiest Day, August 8, 1888, when a family of grizzly bears stopped to scratch their backs against a boulder on Big Grizzly Mountain. A villager passing by shortly afterwards spotted something gleaming in the rock. All that scratching had worn down the surface and revealed a bright vein of gold. Once the news got out, hordes of people began descending on Big Grizzly Gulch to seek their fortunes, sparking a gold rush that brought much prosperity to that luckiest of towns, Grizzly Gulch.