Deadman's Curse

The final words of a lifelong gold hunter send Adam, Kru and Daryl Friesen through an icy gauntlet high above Pitt Lake. On the Gadsby claim, Kru and Daryl move earth in search of Slumach's walnut-sized gold nuggets, while Adam discovers a cave rumored to be Volcanic Brown's final resting place.

The mystery of Slumach's lost gold mine. Seasoned legend hunter and mountaineer Adam Palmer new theory pushes the team deep into the BC wilderness, where indications of travel and trade line up with where the legend claims Slumach found the gold. An old map connected to testimony from an 1891 eyewitness account of Slumach's hanging sheds light on the legend.

A recurring mine marker points prospector Kru Williams, explorer Taylor Starr, master carver Don Froese and hunter and mountaineer Adam Palmer east to neighbouring Harrison Lake as leads and legend line up. Clues found in a 1950s article by an investigative reporter place a lost Spanish gold mine directly on Slumach's path.

Adam Palmer and Kru Williams scour the Breakenridge landslide for evidence of Slumach's legendary lost gold at a Spanish mine east of the Pitt on Harrison Lake, British Columbia. Meanwhile, Taylor and cousin Rain Pierre find new information concerning Slumach's trial, death and burial.