People are scurrying around looking for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Poor people want to get instantly rich, too, and Virginia's government makes a person with a dollar or two think it's possible. The Apache way of life, by the way, was doomed in 1848 by the discovery of gold in California. Americans who headed west during the Gold Rush wanted safe passage, and so Army cavalry was assigned to get the Indians out of the way. Even so, movies made a century later portrayed the Indians as the bad guys.
Losers have a hard time getting respect.
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