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Three Years in California by John D. Borthwick (1857)(LoC) (423 pages)
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Page: of 423
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI.
Hangtown—First impression of “the Diggins”—Idea of a mining town
—Gambling-houses—The street—The stores —Jew slop-shops—The
Jews: their peculiarities—Hangtown on a Sunday—Bowie-knives and
revolvers—Gold-deposits— Method of washing—Long-toms—Rockers
—Prospecting—Middletown—Our ménage, : ; . 112-127
CHAPTER VII.
Digger Indians—Their love of dress—Their dogs—Their food—Their
ingenuity—Indian female beauty, or otherwise—“ Hunting” the Indians, and teaching them manners— Coon Hollow—Coyote Diggings—
Coyotes—Weaver Creek—The weather and the climate—Chinamen—
A celestial ‘‘muss,” . 7 : $ A 3 ; 128-145
CHAPTER VIII.
The Missourians—Pike county : their appearance—Humanising effects of
California—Difference between the outward-bound Californians and the
same men on their return home—The accomplishments of the Missourians—A phrenologer—A jury of miners—A civil suit—We buy a
claim —A “ brush-house”— Rats: how to circumvent them—Ratshooting, : < : ; 5 j : ; 146-160
CHAPTER IX.
Hangtown—Digging in the houses—A golden vision—Slaves in California
Negroes—Caloma—First discovery of gold—Greenwood Valley—
“The Illustrated News”—Middle fork of the American River—A
“bar” —‘ Spanish bar”—Nomenclature of the mines—A. table-d’héte, 161-174
CHAPTER X.
The Grizzly-Bear House—Its cuisine—An Illinois warrior and the Mexican
campaign—A bear-hunter—Bear stories—Grizzlies—Soft pillows—
“Ranches”—Wild oats—Grasshoppers, and grasshopper paste—Arrival
at Nevada City—Situation and general appearance of the city—Supper
at the Hétel de Paris—A three-decker—Richard III. and Bombastes
Furioso, : fe “ : : : ‘ A 175-187
CHAPTER XI.
Pine-trees—Sugar-pines— Woodpeckers and acorns—Quartz veins—
Coyote Diggings—Speculative mining—Hiring out—Average yield of
the mines—Loafers—An old sailor on a spree—Start for the Yuba—
* Vegetables—An old friend—‘“ Packing”—Mexican packers and packmules, 3 ‘ : : : . ; 188-198
CHAPTER XII.
Start for Foster’s Bar—A hard road to travel—Portrait-painting—Flattering likenesses—Foster’s Bar—Sleeping under difficulties Camping out
—Camp of a flaming company—Dangers of sketching—Taken for a
highwayman, and raised to the rank of colonel—A long journey for
nothing—A soiree musicale in the forest, . 5 : c 199-212