The Trail of 1858 is a great book by Mark Fortsyth and Greg Dickson (CBC Radio's "BC Almanac") published in 2007 by Harbour Publishing. It starts at BC's Gold Rush of 1858 and continues into the very recent past. Very highly recommended.
The Trail of 1858 is No. 1 on the Best of BC list of the Association of Book Publishers of BC. (Slumach's Gold is climbed up from the eighth spot the held for a long time to the fifth position this week!)
Slumach is mentioned (p 148) with a reference to the Antonsons/Trainer book. Forsyth and Dickinson conclude that the legend is just a legend and suggest that "where the connection [with Slumach] came from is still unknown, despite decades of research." My little piece "Pitt Lake Gold" in Wikipedia offers an approach to an answer to that question.
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