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A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

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Another minister—a part-tim parson from Nevada City— had his troubles, too. He and a group of saddened miners stood beside the open grave of one of their fellows who had been done in by “lung fever.” Rain was pouring down but, nevertheless, they stood with bowed heads as the clergyman read the graveside service. One of the miner-mourners glanced at the pile of fresh earth in the rain. Something glistened. He poked at it with the toe of his boot. It was a gold nugget: Silently he bent over, picked it up, and fingered the earth around it. He found another—a real biggie. When the parson finally raised his head and looked about— he saw all the mourners quietly pacing off gold claims in‘ the little hillside graveyard. He was indignant. “Please, fellows!” he scolded. “Puh-lease! Let EVERYBODY have a ehance!” ‘We expect to hear from Andy Rogers of Rough and Ready, Cal., again in about three months. We think we can depend on him to remind us that July Fourth will be the 100th anniversary of the end of the independent republic which was formed to avoid some U.S. mining taxes and to kick out some of the people they didn’t want moving in on their diggin’s. The people of Rough and Ready wanted to put on a big Fourth of July celebration back in 1850, completer with American Flags and everything. But they couldn’t do ‘that if they were a foreign nation—so they promptly kill ¢ c F their republic and came back into the fold of the Unv