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Josiah Edward Spurr Through the Yukon Gold Diggings A Narrative of Personal Travel

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Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950) was an American geologist, explorer, and author. Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he was considered something of a failure as a youth, unsuited for the family fishing business, since on a voyage he invariably became seasick. Since he could not be a productive fisherman like his brothers, his parents decided he might as well go to college. After working his way through Harvard, he began his career with the Minnesota Geological Survey, making the first-ever geological map of the great Mesabi iron range in Minnesota. [more]

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Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

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Ellen Kean (12 December 1805 – 20 August 1880) was an English actress. She was known as Ellen [more]

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John R. Spears The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn - A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia

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John Randolph Spears (1850–1936) was an American author and journalist, born at Van Wert, Ohio. For some time, [more]

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Friedrich Gerstäcker Gold

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Goldrausch 1849 in Kalifornien: Abertausende ehrliche Digger arbeiten in den Claims. Da hetzen skrupellose Falschspieler die ansonsten harmlosen [more]

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Edward Dyson The Missing Link

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He was born at Morrisons near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and after working on various diggings became a mining engineer. His mother, Jane, née Mayall,[1] came from 'a life of refinement in England'. The family led a roving life during Dyson's childhood, moving successively to Alfredton, Bendigo, Ballarat and Alfredton again.[2] At 12 he began to work as an assistant to a travelling draper, During his teens he worked in various jobs 'below and on top' at Ballarat, Clunes, Bungaree, Lefroy (Tasmania), Smeaton and Gordon. About 1883 the family settled in South Melbourne.[1] [more]

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Henry Lawson While The Billy Boils (Fiscle Part-3)

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You Remember When We Hurried Home From The Old Bush School How We Were Sometimes Startled By A Bearded Apparition, Who Smiled Kindly Down On Us, And Whom Our Mother Introduced, As We Raked Off Our Hats, As "An Old Mate Of Your Father's On The Diggings, Johnny." And He Would Pat Our Heads And Say We Were Fine Boys, Or Girls--As The Case May Have Been--And That We Had Our Father's Nose But Our Mother's Eyes, Or The Other Way About; And Say That The Baby Was The Dead Spit Of Its Mother, And Then Added, For Father's Benefit: "But Yet He's Like You, Tom." It Did Seem Strange To The Children To Hear Him Address The Old Man By His Christian Name---Considering That The Mother Always Referred To Him As "Father." She Called The Old Mate Mr So-And-So, And Father Called Him Bill, Or Something To That Effect. [more]

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JOHN HABBERTON ROMANCE OF CALIFORNIA LIFE

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It certainly was hard. What was the freedom of a country in which the voice of the original founders was spent in vain? Had not they, the "Forty" miners of Bottle Flat, really started the place? Hadn't they located claims there? Hadn't they contributed three ounces each, ostensibly to set up in business a brother miner who unfortunately lost an arm, but really that a saloon might be opened, and the genuineness and stability of the camp be assured? Hadn't they promptly killed or scared away every Chinaman who had ever trailed his celestial pig-tail into the Flat? Hadn't they cut and beaten a trail to Placerville, so that miners could take a run to that city when the Flat became too quiet? Hadn't they framed the squarest betting code in the whole diggings? [more]

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Charles Garvice At Love's Cost

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"Until this moment I have never fully realised how great an ass a man can be. When I think that this morning I scurried through what might have been a decent breakfast, left my comfortable diggings, and was cooped up in a train for seven hours, that I am now driving in a pelting rain through, so far as I can see for the mist, what appears to be a howling wilderness, I ask myself if I am still in possession of my senses. I ask myself why I should commit such lurid folly. Last night I was sitting over the fire with a book—for it was cold, though not so cold as this," the speaker shivered and dragged the collar of his overcoat still higher—"at peace with all the world, with Omar purring placidly by my side, and my soul wrapped in that serenity which belongs to a man who has long since rid himself of that inconvenient appendage—a conscience, and has hit upon the right brand of cigarettes, and now—" [more]

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John Habberton Romance of California Life

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137246 Words
Ages 18 and up
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It certainly was hard. What was the freedom of a country in which the voice of the original founders was spent in vain? Had not they, the "Forty" miners of Bottle Flat, really started the place? Hadn't they located claims there? Hadn't they contributed three ounces each, ostensibly to set up in business a brother miner who unfortunately lost an arm, but really that a saloon might be opened, and the genuineness and stability of the camp be assured? Hadn't they promptly killed or scared away every Chinaman who had ever trailed his celestial pig-tail into the Flat? Hadn't they cut and beaten a trail to Placerville, so that miners could take a run to that city when the Flat became too quiet? Hadn't they framed the squarest betting code in the whole diggings? And when a 'Frisco man basely attempted to break up the camp by starting a gorgeous saloon a few miles up the creek, hadn't they gone up in a body and cleared him out, giving him only ten minutes in which to leave the creek for ever? All this they had done, actuated only by a stern sense of duty, and in the patient anticipation of the reward which traditionally crowns virtuous action. [more]

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