Aron Beam promoted phony gold rushes all over the central United States, from Arkansas to Colorado.

Like the lonely pedestal of Ozymandius, these concrete foundations of an ore mill are the only remains of the gold-mining boom town of Wildman, Oklahoma.  The mill was built to extract gold that wasn’t there.

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