Midas touch

An entrepreneur lures aspiring miners to an old gold-rush town. Photographs by John Clark.

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The northern California town of Happy Camp (pop. 1,000) was founded in 1850 when an estimated 15,000 people converged here, to extract gold from the nearby stretch of the Klamath River. Dave McCracken, 54, set up his own gold digging expeditions after learning the tricks from some old-timers. Attendees hail from as far away as Hawaii and Virginia.
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