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The Next Bend In The River

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C. J. Stevens tells it like it is, very informative and historic. if you can't go right out and find gold here in Maine after reading this book than you never will find any gold. This book is a must read for my entire family before I will take them panning with me.

Seldom does a book contain both useful information and intriguing true stories on prospecting - this is a learning experience as well as an entertaining one.

There are simple and easy-to-follow instructions on how to hunt and pan for gold, and a list of the streams and rivers where gold has been found.
Prospectors are a widely diverging group: they include eccentrics and every-day people, all equally caught up in that adventure of the search for gold. Many of them are generous as they share their prospecting secrets.

After closing the covers I looked sadly out at the snow. I wanted to pack my gear and go gold-hunting right away! That is how the book affected me. But time goes fast, and soon it will be warm enough to swirl a pan. I can warmly recommend this book for all who love adventure.

This book is a great read, especially if you are at all familiar with Maine and its' people. Very informative if you are interested in panning or sluicing for gold, honest, direct, and woven with great stories of real people. I loved it!

Seldom does a book change one's life - but I know several people whose lives were enriched upon reading these pages. Here is an adventure for the whole family, as well as for the lone searcher for treasures.
All the necessary information for finding gold is there, and many prospectors share their secrets - very interesting characters, most of them. An old lady who was panning on the Swift River - she had recently read the book - said 'It reads like a novel and it tells all.' I heartily agree with her assessment.

I bought this book because I was thinking about doing some recreational gold prospecting in Maine. Upon reading the book, I found that 95% of the book was anecdotes about people who had lived in Maine and had been been in some way associated with prospecting. To its credit, there were a few pages that mentioned a couple areas where some people go regularly to pan for gold. This book it not really a how to guide for panning in Maine.