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Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: The Good Luck and Bad Luck of Prospecting With Animals

I saw a big brown hind end of what at first I thought was an elk, about 75 yards away. I was standing behind a large tree and stopped and peeked around the tree to see what it was.

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