DCHP-3

gold trail

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the route leading to a goldfield or to a hoped-for gold strike.

Quotations

1921
Such a man may spend his last cent on the gold trail, but, just as soon as he can, by trapping or otherwise, make a new grubstake, he is off again into the mountains after the golden will o' the wisp.
1963
The narrow-­guage railway . . . follows the shore of Lake Bennett, following a path beaten so hard by the thousands of sourdoughs that the gold trail is still visible today.