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The Buckland Valley Gold Fields History
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<blockquote data-quote="Nihilus" data-source="post: 648300" data-attributes="member: 23020"><p>Just a little more history I found whilst searching.</p><p>"An estimated 6,000 diggers were swarming up the Buckland River valley by January 1854.1 Soon after, though, the rush was abruptly halted by an outbreak of 'colonial fever'. Within a few days, most of the diggers were either dead or had fled. For years thereafter, the Buckland was known as 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' and was largely shunned by diggers until early in 1857 when there came a great number of Chinese."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nihilus, post: 648300, member: 23020"] Just a little more history I found whilst searching. "An estimated 6,000 diggers were swarming up the Buckland River valley by January 1854.1 Soon after, though, the rush was abruptly halted by an outbreak of 'colonial fever'. Within a few days, most of the diggers were either dead or had fled. For years thereafter, the Buckland was known as 'The Valley of the Shadow of Death' and was largely shunned by diggers until early in 1857 when there came a great number of Chinese." [/QUOTE]
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