Word: golconda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louisville physician, joins the Gold Rush hoping that some day he will return "laden with the treasures of Golconda, respected, envied by all, denied credit by none." His son Jaimie goes along mainly to escape high school, feeling himself "already educated to the point of absurdity." As they pick up companions along the way, the McPheeters party grows into as fine a concourse of nitwitted adventurers as ever washed a pan in greed. Among those present...