The Myth of the Quick and of the Mountains

Within the folklore of the california gold rush comes this unique american terror. You can become rich overnight, but up in the mountains, you get sucked into the earth. And no one knows what the fok this is. So then the myth of the quick and of the mountains starts to become part of folklore. It starts to become something that people speak about but are not quite sure of. But it's all so intertwined with this pursuit of gold and greed.