With respect to the fallacies that got many of the miners going, Holmes and Fisher tell a story of two men who staked a claim in the middle of a pasture. The two men said the claim had been assayed at two thousand dollars to the ton. After a rancher read the claim hanging on a sign he told his neighbors and they told their neighbors and so it went until the largest stampede in mining history occurred. People came from all over, leaving their jobs and town and heading for the claim called Diamond Field. Then a man named Bob Womack came to ....