goldseeker

I was not a goldseeker, but a nature hunter, and I was eager to enter this, the wildest region yet remaining in Northern America.

The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

In this country there were no horses except such as the goldseeker owned, and this bunch of horses meant a camp of trailers.

The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

However, I was not a goldseeker, and when I determined to give up any further pursuit of mining and to delegate it entirely to my partner,

The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

To me he was simply a strongly accentuated type of the goldseeker -- insanely persistent; blind to all danger, deaf to all warning, and doomed to failure at the start.

The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900

A month later I returned to Wrangell, picked up Ladrone, shipped with him to Seattle and so ceased to be a goldseeker.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900