gold rush†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a vast movement of persons to a new goldfield.

Quotations

1900

They were specimens of the many strange waifs which ride the breast of a gold rush. . . .

1964

Mike subsequently took part in half a dozen gold rushes in the Yukon and Alaska, and got luckier every time.