A Yankee down East has invented this specific for the use of gold hunters. The operator is to grease himself well, lay down on the top of a hill, and then roll to the bottom. The gold, and “nothing else,” will stick to him. Price $10 per box.

An item in the Richmond, Indiana, Palladium, February 7, 1849
 

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Bowie knife
c. 1850
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles