[Gutenberg 3315] • Down the Mother Lode
- Authors
- Hemphill, Vivia
- Publisher
- Purnell's
- Tags
- american , frontier and pioneer life -- california -- fiction , california -- gold discoveries -- fiction , short stories
- ISBN
- 2940009156514
- Date
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.09 MB
- Lang
- en
Everywhere in the foothills of the Sierras there are still evidences of gold mining. High cliffs face the rivers, all that is left of hills torn down at the point of the powerful hydraulic nozzles, with great heaps of cobbles at their base which Mother Nature, even in seventy years has been unable to change or cover.