Monthly Archives: June 2021

If I Were a 49er: Panning for Gold

I am a forty-niner, and I am on a trip to the Gold Rush.  It has been a hard trip, but we are almost there.  Some of my friends have died.

Now we have gotten to the gold rush.  We’ve only found a little bit of gold.  Now when we are panning for gold, we can’t find a lot of gold.  The food is getting to be more money.

It is hard panning for gold!  The water is so cold, and we get frostbite sometimes.  We have to hunt a lot for food.

We got poor, so we had to give up and leave California to go home.