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Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park (CA)
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HYDRAULIC GOLD-MINING IN CALIFORNIA, 1883. by Taliesin Evans.
By the 1870s and 1880s in the California gold country, the gold that had been easy to
pick up already had been. But there was lots more, buried in the earth. A massive plumbing
system was built to harness water as a tool to wash the earth away and leave a residue of
heavy metals, especially gold. Meanwhile, though, mud and gravel released in the process
washed downstream to inundate farms and homes. Dwellers there objected, and in court they
effectively stopped the hydraulic mining--one of the earliest environmental court actions.
But when our author was there, his interest was describing a vital western industry. And
the mines can still be seen--Interstate Highway 80 runs right through one at Gold Run, and
another is the Malakoff Diggings State Historical Park, where you can not only see the
washed banks but also some of the nozzles and mining equipment used to get the gold out.
Reprinted from 1883. Illustrations are from the original article and other period sources. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-052-5.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-052-2. 16 pages. Order #: VIST0052 paper $3.95.
A MINER'S SUNDAY, 1849. by Charles B. Gillespie.
This story is set in Coloma, the California gold discovery site of 1848. But it might have happened at any of the gold-rush sites of the West--Virginia City, Cripple Creek, the Klondike--and it probably did, but only on Sunday. Town was a lively place the one day the mines were shut down, with a mix of nationalities engaging in gambling, auctions, horse-racing, shopping for clothes and supplies, eating, drinking, brawling, and general tom-foolery as you might expect from a bunch of young men from all over the world who were off to a get-rich adventure. Illustrations are from early sources, including the original article of 1891, Frederic Remington, and the Crocker Art Museum. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-005-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-005-8. Published by VistaBooks 1981. Order #: VIST0005 paper$3.95.
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