Publisher's Synopsis
Two young backwoods brothers light out to find gold in Georgia's mountains in 1830.
They discover the best and worst men, and women, among the thousands of miners, hundreds of prostitutes, and the few original settlers.
They take separate paths to make money, find love, an education. In a town flowing with money and upheavals, including having all its Indian population driven out at the behest of another backwoodsman, Andrew Jackson. They also face a serial killer.
