[Gutenberg 3315] • Down the Mother Lode

[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
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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.