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ground, but personal things, as the names o f mines indicated.
Those names ring with a sense of love and authenticity as is
evidenced in “Emma,” “Lucky Cuss,” “Independence,” “Molly
Brown,” “Matchless,” “Rough and Ready,” and “Vulture.” Each
has its own story to tell about the human condition. The nineteenth
century gold era is gone, but while it lived, it made its presence
known and, in so doing, shaped America and the people who dwelt
within her borders.
DePaul University
Gerald Kreyche
Endnotes
1. T.H. W adkins, Gold and Silver in the West (New York: Bonanza, 1971), p.
25.
2. A. A. Bodkin ,A Treasure o f Western Folklore (New York: Bonanza, c.
1975), p. 322.
3. Daniel R. Phillips (ed.), The W est (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company,
1973), p. 104.
4. A. Delano, Life on the Plains and at the Diggings (Auburn: M iller, Orton,
& M ulligan, 1854), p. 242.
5. Western Folklore, 337.
6. Rodman W. Paul, California Gold (Lincoln: Univ. o f Nebraska Press, c.
1947), p. 21.
7. Ibid., d p . 119-20.
8. Howard R. Lamar (ed.). Encyclopedia o f the American West (New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell, c. 1977), p. 449.
9. Gold and Silver. 28.
10. Jay Monaghan (ed.), The Book o f the American West (New York: Harper
and Row, 1956), p. 239.
11. For a history of the Cornish miners, see A. L. Rouse, The Cousin Jacks:
The Cornish in America (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969).
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