It was the souvenir of a knife fight in the California gold fields but Wade did not know it.

那是他在加利福妮亚金矿区跟别人打架动刀子留下来的一个纪念。但是韦德搞不清楚，他呼吸紧张，心里十分骄傲。

I suppose he blunted them gouging nuggets out of the gold fields.

我想他把它们弄钝了， 是为了从金矿中挖出金块。

Men had rushed to the gold fields with hopes of becoming rich. A few found gold. The others found only hard work and high prices.

人们带着发财的希望冲向金矿。一些人发现了金子，其他人只发现了艰苦的工作和高昂的价格。

Many of the gold fields were in the center of the territory and were very difficult to reach.

许多金矿都位于领土的中心，很难到达。

Once she took an eight hundred and fifty mile drive up the Cariboo trail to the gold fields.

有一次，她沿着卡里布小径驱车八百五十英里来到金矿区。

Many non-Mormons passed through the Salt Lake area on their way to the gold fields. Some of them stayed. It soon became clear that new laws were needed to govern the growing population.

许多非摩门教徒在前往金矿的途中穿过盐湖区。其中一些人留了下来，需要出台新的法律来管理不断增长的人口，这一问题很快就彰显出来。

Steamship companies promoted this spot as the start of the Valdez Glacier Trail, a direct route to what they promised were rich, untapped gold fields in the Alaska interior.

轮船公司推广这个地点作为瓦尔迪兹冰川小径的起点，一条直达路线他们承诺的是阿拉斯加内陆的丰富、未开发的黄金领域。