Mt. Moosilauke (1759) - Ranger's Gold
". . . One day, as the early settlers relate the golden tradition, the ranger stopped to quench his thirst at a little mountain rill. As he kneeled to sip the sparkling water he saw shining in the sand at the bottom what appeared to be bright grains of gold. Picking up a handful of these he tied them in a corner of his handkerchief and after heaping a small monument of stones on the bank, departed. The particles thus collected, on being shown to a jeweller, proved to be pure gold, and he received for them fifty dollars. But although careful search has since often been made neither the monument nor the golden stream has ever again been discovered. . . ."
From "Ranger's Rest" by William Little, pp. 13-23, The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol.1). ©1999.
