                   Gold Rush! - Sierra On-Line

OVERVIEW.
The objective of the game is to travel from New York to 
California in an attempt to find both your brother and your 
fortune. You have three options as to how you make your way 
across the States:
1. Stagecoach 
2. Ship via Cape Horn 
3. Ship via Panama 
 
NEW YORK.
Enter your House and open the Photo Album. Remove the Family 
Photo. Once outside again, sell your house immediately. The 
price it fetches falls after gold fever hits New York City.
 
Enter the Gazebo and take the Flowers and the Gold Coin which 
has fallen between the slats of the floor.
 

Go to the Post Office and say "Get Mail" to the Clerk. He has 
none. Return later and there will be a letter from your 
brother. Read the postmark (Sutters Fort), lift up the Stamp 
(Gold Flake) and then read the letter. The words in capitals 
read: "Great find in the American River".
 
Go to the Newspaper Office and go to your Boss and resign. Go 
to your desk and read the clippings about your brother.
 
Go to the Graveyard and put flowers on your parents' graves.
 
Go to the Bank and and say to Teller: "Get Quail" (The 
President....you learn this from the photo album). Clear 
account of all monies.
 
Go back to your house and collect the proceeds of the sale.
 
Go to the Warehouse and read the poster. If you are travelling 
by ship then go to the house next door to yours and purchase a 
ticket. The price rises if gold fever hits! Don't waste time 
from the start. If you're going via Panama then ensure that you 
buy a mosquito net at the Hardware Shop and fruit and 
vegetables. If you are going by the Cape or Stage, ensure that 
you have fruit and food.
 
To go by Stage, purchase a ticket at the Stage Office and show 
it to the man at the Livery Stable. Get on the Stage and head 
out.
 
Going by boat, just get on board and wait until the ship sets 
sail.
 
STAGE.
Pay the Captain at the Camp. Buy mature oxen at the Corral. 
Examine the Plains and when the grass is starting to grow, give 
the order to head out. Whilst waiting for Spring, talk to the 
man reading who'll give you his Bible. At the brow of the hill, 
unhitch the oxen. When they have been watered, put chains on 
the wheels. When in the Desert, drink the water from the barrel 
of the abandoned wagon and eat the meat from inside it.
THE CAPE.
Talk to the man reading the Bible again. When the food has run 
out get the string from the Bunk Room, the scraps of metal from 
the Engine Room, the stick from the Stoker's, the pork from the 
Galley and the paper clip from the Captain's Office. Go to the 
rear end of the boat and fish. As soon as you dock, go to the 
Stage Depot and get on.
 
PANAMA.
Say "Yes" when the Guide asks whether to pay the Natives or 
not. In the clearing, talk to the man with the Bible again. 
Take the Vine to avoid being consumed by the Ants. On the next 
screen, there are three paths through. The first gets you 
crushed by a snake, the second shredded by a Plant and the 
third is hidden from view. As you first enter the screen, go up 
and across and you should be able to find it without too many 
problems. To negotiate the quicksand, follow a straight path 
about half to two-thirds of the way across (just hit the right 
cursor key as you enter the screen) and then go slightly up and 

then straight right again. Again, go to the Stage Depot as soon 
as possible.
 
SUTTER'S FORT.
Go to the Blacksmith's and get the branding iron. Buy a pan at 
the Store with your gold coin from the Gazebo. Go to the 
Graveyard and find the grave of "Pa" mentioned in your 
brother's letter. It's the big one in the middle at the back. 
Read the tomb and when you get the screenshot of the headstone, 
use the letter. Your brother put holes in it. Line it up 
correctly and you'll get R21OOM. The headstone mentions Psalm 
23. Read the psalm and Green Pastures is in bold.
 
THE RIVER & GREEN PASTURES HOTEL.
Leave the Fort and head due East. Keep walking in the river and 
pan regularly. You should find gold every so often. This gold 
allocation appears to be random. When you have travelled about 
18 miles East (18 screens!), you'll come to a Sawmill. Go to 
the right and you'll come to a Small Town. Go to the Green 
Pastures Hotel. Say to Clerk "Get Messages". He has none for 
you but he asks you to take one up to Room 11. Take it and 
deliver it. When the guest leaves, nip into his room and turn 
the wheel of the cannon on the fireplace. Enter the fireplace 
and you are in Room 12.
 
Read the note, take the magnet and get the string from the 
floor. Unlatch the window and wait for the bird to fly into the 
cage. Examine the bird, examine it's capsule and insert the 
family photo. When it returns, read the aerogram. A stubborn 
friend will guide you. Wait for the guest to leave again and 
then go back out via Room 11.
 
SUTTER'S FORT.
Return to the fort via the river (and more panning!) and buy a 
lantern and shovel. Buy a mule from the Corral inside the fort, 
then go to the Blacksmith's, heat the iron and brand the mule. 
Now go to the corral just outside and find the mule which has 
your brother's brand. Leave the one you bought and take the 
other.
 
At the river, release the mule and follow it to East 27 South 7 
where you find your brother's log cabin. Take the matches from 
the table and if you lift the rug you will find a trapdoor 
which cannot be opened from ground level. Go outside and enter 
the Outhouse. Again, it's a bit tricky to get to. Take your 
character to the right. He'll go out of sight, bring him down 
and across to the left. In the Loo enter the shaft.
 
Light the lantern and proceed to the mine door. Tie the string 
to the magnet and put the magnet in the hole. Looking under the 
door you can see the key. Lower the magnet and pull the string. 
Unlock the door and enter the mine. Go down the ladder and go 
left at the bottom. Ensure that your character is on SLOW and 
when near the ladder, go up as far as possible and then come 
across onto the ladder. Go down and get the pick. Go back up 
and at the point you entered the ladder, there is a ledge (it's 
black and overhangs the ladder), then move left. Proceed left 
and then climb down the next ladder. At the top of the next use 
the pick and strike gold!
 
Come down and then move left to find your brother. Use the pick 
just behind your brother - just to the left of the gold vein - 
and continue 'picking' and taking gold until you open up a 
hole. Enter and find your fortune!!!!!!!!!!

Source: SynTax Issue 1