Initially I thought Rivers of Gold would be an elementary assignment. The tale was to be based on work I had written years ago and supplemented with bits and pieces from several of my books. All I had to do, or so I thought, was make the story current. But when I did I was dumbfounded. I could not believe what I had discovered…
Rivers of Gold
Actually the title had been floating around in my consciousness for some time. Like an ancient treasure map, it conjured an interesting, almost seductive image, but I had no idea what any of the signs meant…
It wasn’t until the first rewrite the fog began to life revealing the initial nuggets in the secret formula, or genetic alchemy, leading to herds of the most outstanding horses in recent history.
Rivers of Gold, I would discover, symbolizes four distinct genetic streams responsible for spawning this bonanza. Beginning as mere trickles a century ago in Canada, these streams now flow with the intensity of Niagara Falls…
…to be continued