This old traditional font style has an interesting history, it was originally cut with lowercase by the Bruce Type Foundry in 1865 and noted as Ornamented No. 1514. Around 1903 the Bruce foundry was bought by ATF, in 1933 this font was revived by ATF as Caps just and was given the Gold Rush name but was sometimes called Klondike.
A similar variation of this font with lowercase and radiused serifs was produced by the James Conner's Sons Type Foundry around 1888. In the past other foundries such as the Carroll foundry, Type Founders of Phoenix and the Los Angeles Type Foundry have produced an all caps version of this font.
After taking a look at numerous printed sources of this font style from more current books I discovered that the original from Bruce's 1882 book was without a doubt the finest in design quality, it was likewise the only printed source that consisted of the lowercase.
New open faced, ornamented and distressed versions have actually been contributed to this old traditional font style, there are also lots of extended characters for Western, Central and Eastern European countries.
The Gold Rush Trail OpenType version has alternate double letter sets included in the font style and will automatically be substituted when used in Adobe CS items or other software that benefits from OpenType features.
Also available is a stimulated variation of this font listed under the name Gold Spur.
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