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MINES AND MINING
"I sat on the counter of a store in Jackson one evening, when a Digger Indian came in with several ounces of nuggets tied up in a rag. He put the package in one bowl of the scales and laconically spoke the word 'raisin.' The storekeeper leisurely walked around the counter, found a box of raisins and returning to the scales began dropping raisins, one at a time, as if they were too precious to part with, into the other bowl of the scale. When the raisins balanced the gold, he emptied them into a paper bag which he handed to the Indian who departed satisfied."
__The Autobiography of Charles Peters
[E1]
Arbuckle, Clyde. "Coloma's Gold Discovery of 1848: Testimony of Cousin Belle Dampman." Pony Express Courier
11(January 1944): 3-4, 11.
[E2]
________. "January 19th or 24th?" Pony Express Courier 11(January 1944): 8, 10.
[E3]
Bekeart, Philip Baldwin. "Previous Gold Discoveries." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 1(September
1924): 84-95.
[E4]
________. "The Lump of Gold Known As the Wimmer Nugget." Society of California Pioneers 1(September 1924):
79-83. (Marshall's Nugget)
[E5]
Bellamy, Marion. "The Discovery of Gold in California." Overland Monthly, second series 31(February 1898):
161-164.
[E6]
Berry, Thomas Senior. "Gold! But How Much?" California Historical Quarterly 55(Fall 1976): 246-255.
[E7]
"Bigler Records the Discovery of Gold." Pony Express Courier 5(April 1939): 1. (Letter)
[E8]
Bowman, J.N. "The First Authentic Place Mine in California." Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern
California 31(September 1949): 225-230.
[E9]
Brereton, Roslyn. "Mining Techniques in the California Goldfields During the 1850s." Pacific Historian
20(Fall 1976): 286-302.
[E10]
Briggs, Carl. "Mt. Gaines: 135 Years of Mother Lode Mining." The Californians 3(January-February 1985):
40-42.
[E11]
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[E12]
Bussert, Wendell. "Before the Gold Rush." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 5. (Earlier gold discoveries)
[E13]
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[E14]
Carter, Henry. "Mines and Miners of Shasta, Trinity and Siskiyou Counties." Covered Wagon (1966): 22-33.
[E15]
Chapman, Charles E. "History of Mining in California." Grizzly Bear 21(September 1917): 4, 20; (October
1917): 3-4; (November 1917): 7; (December 1917): 6.
[E16]
Clamage, Sandy. "California's Mother Lode." Journal of the West 22(July 1983): 88-92.
[E17]
"Composite Picture of Different Methods of Early Day Mining." Pony Express Courier 8(March 1942): 4.
[E18]
Daggett, Hallie M. "Early Day Mining Camps of the Salmon River." Siskiyou Pioneer 2:10(1957): 2-9.
[E19]
"A Dance in the Mines." Pony Express Courier 4(October 1937): 1. (Picture only)
[E20]
Davis, Hazel. "Scott Bar." Siskiyou Pioneer 4:5(1972): 74-75.
[E21]
Denny, Karl V. "Callahan Mines . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 2:10(1957): 41-44.
[E22]
"Diving for Gold '49." Overland Monthly 13(September 1874): 273-280.
[E23]
Egenhoff, Elisabeth L. "The Elephant as They Saw It: A Collection of Contemporary Pictures and Statements
of Gold Mining in California." California Journal of Mines and Geology, Centennial Supplement 45(October 1949):
1-128.
[E24]
Ellenbecker, John G. "Cache of the Forty-Niners: The Buried Gold Near Seneca, Kansas." Pony Express Courier
6(August 1939): 12.
[E25]
Fracchia, Charles A. "The Founding of the San Francisco Mining Exchange." California Historical Society
Quarterly 38(March 1969): 3-17.
[E26]
Fuller, Willard, Judith Cunningham, and Julia Costello. "Carson Hill and Its Gold Quartz Mills." Las
Calaveras 29(April 1990): 25-35.
[E27]
Gard, Frances. "Early Days at Rich Bar." Butte County Historical Society Diggin's 5(Fall 1961): 18-20
[E28]
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[E29]
"Gold and Gold Mining." Overland Monthly 4(June 1870): 496-502.
[E30]
"Gold Discovery Site Marker." Grizzly Bear 46(March 1930): 10. (Los Angeles 1842)
[E31]
"The Golden Nugget: The Story of the Discovery of Gold." California History Nugget 1(January 1924): 3-6.
[E32]
Goss, Helen Rocca. "The Golden Rock Water Ditch." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly
63(March 1961): 69-84.
[E33]
"The Gravel Ranges of the Gold Belt." Overland Monthly 11(November 1873): 393-403.
[E34]
Grider, J.B. "Gold Mining From Scott Bar to Happy Camp." Siskiyou Pioneer 2:10(1957): 27-35.
[E35]
Gudde, Erwin G. "The Vizetelly Hoax." Pacific Historical Review 28(August 1959): 233-236. (Fabrication
about gold rush)
[E36]
Guinn, J.M. "Date of the First Discovery of Gold in California." Publications of the Historical Society
of Southern California 3(1895): 59.
[E37]
________. "Early Gold Discoveries in Southern California: Where, When, and By Whom Was Gold First Discovered
in California?" Publications of the Historical of
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[E38]
________. "Gold Placers of Los Angeles." Land of Sunshine 5(July 1896): 60-63. (Los Angeles, 1841)
[E39]
________. "The Myth of Gold Lake." Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California 6(1903-1905):
82-86.
[E40]
________. "Some Famous Gold Rushes." Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California 4(1897):
124-130.
[E41]
Hamilton, Kendra. "Golden-Rooted Onions." Pony Express Courier 3(March 1937): 3-4. (Gold, Los Angeles)
[E42]
Hamlin, H. "Breyfogle's Lost Map to Gold Mine." Pony Express 23(March 1957): 1,3-4. (Death Valley)
[E43]
________. "History of Gold Discoveries." Pony Express 14(January 1948): 3-13.
[E44]
________. "Where Is the Mother Lode?" Pony Express 22(August 1955): 7-12.
[E44a]
Hendry, Mike, Mary Luecke, and Jim Rock. "John Daggett and Salmon River Mining." Pioneer 7(Fall 1998):
156-167. (Siskiyou County)
[E45]
Heizer, Robert F. "Archaeological Investigation of Sutter Sawmill Site in 1947." California Historical
Society Quarterly 26(June 1947): 134-159.
[E46]
Henry, Oscar J. "Early Day Mining on the South Fork of Scott River." Siskiyou Pioneer 4:3(1970): 47-52,
77.
[E47]
Holliday, J.S. "In the Diggings." California History 61(Fall1982): 168-188.
[E48]
Jacobs, Gordon. "Mines of the Henley-Hornbrook Area . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 2:10(1957): 48-51.
[E49]
Johnson, George. "Marshall and the Monument." Pony Express 11(January 1945): 3-4.
[E50]
Johnson, Kenneth M. "Two Mines: Two Books." Journal of the West 17(January 1978): 27-38.
[E51]
Joy, Emmett P. "Miners' Ditches of '49 Turn Today's Wheels of Industry." Grizzly Bear 78(March 1947):
6-7, 16.
[E52]
Kasper, Sydney H. "You Can Still Strike It Rich in the Gold Country." Early American Life 13:1(1982):
72-73, 88-90.
[E53]
Kelley, Margaret A. "The Sutter-Marshall Mill, and What Became of It." Pony Express Courier 1(January
1935): 3, 6.
[E54]
Kelley, Robert L. "The Hydraulic Gold Mining Industry in California." Pacific Historical Review 23(November
1954): 343-356.
[E55]
________. "The Mining Debris Controversy in the Sacramento Valley." Pacific Historical Review 25(November
1956): 331-346.
[E56]
Kenn, Charles. "A Visit to California Gold Fields." Hawaiian Historical Society Annual Report (1965):
7-16.
[E56a]
Kiester, E. "Turning Water to Gold (Hydraulic Mining in California's Sacramento Valley in the Wake of the
Gold Rush, Malakoff Diggins State Historical Park, Early
Environmental Litigation)." Smithsonian 30(August 1999): 18.
[E57]
Knowland, Joseph R. "California Gold Discovery: Centennial Papers on the Time, Site, and Artifacts."
California Historical Society Quarterly 26(June 1947): 107-108.
[E57a]
"Land of Golden Dreams - California in the Gold Rush Decade." International California Mining Journal
69:3(1999): 39.
[E57b]
Limbaugh, Ronald H. "Making Old Tools Work Better: Pragmatic Adaptation and Innovation in Gold-Rush."
California History 77:4(1998-1999): 24-51.
[E58]
________. "Secret Ravine: The Rise & Fall of a Gold Mine." Pacific Historian 15(Winter 1971): 53-70.
[E59]
Logan, C.A. "History of Mining and Milling Methods in California." California Geology 34:9(1981): 193-196.
[E60]
"Map of Gold Regions." Pony Express 15(February 1949): 3-5, 8-9.
[E61]
"The Marshall Monument." California History Nugget 3(April-May 1930): 72-76.
[E62]
McNeill, Jim. "The Saga of the Salmon River Lifting Rock." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:6(1983): 1-6.
[E63]
"The Miner's Ten Commandments." Pony Express Courier 4(February 1938): 15.
[E64]
"Mines of Scott Bar." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 92-94.
[E65]
"Mining and Water." Pacific Historian 27(Spring 1983): 36-41.
[E66]
"Mining Camps on the Middle Fork American River." Pony Express 30(July 1963): 8.
[E67]
"The Mining Excitements of California." Overland Monthly 2(May 1869): 413-417.
[E68]
"Mining Gold in California." Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine 2(September 1860); (November
1857); 5(September 1860).
[E69]
"More Gold Per Mile on the Middle Fork Than Any Other River in California." Pony Express 23(July 1956):
8. (American River)
[E70]
Morehouse, Bert. "Pegleg - Famous Ghost Mine." Pony Express 11(May 1945): 9- 10.
[E71]
"The Mother Lode." Overland Monthly 9(November 1872): 401-412.
[E72]
Naftzger, Roy E. "Early California Gold." Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 32(December
1950): 309-315.
[E73]
Neasham, Aubrey. "Sutter's Sawmill." California Historical Society Quarterly 26(June 1947): 109-133.
[E74]
Noble, Johnny. "Sutter Mill Timbers Found." Grizzly Bear 78(April 1947): 7, 18.
[E75]
"Northern California, Scott and Klamath Rivers By a Practical Miner." Siskiyou Pioneer 1:5(1951): 26-35.
(Reprint of 1855 ed.)
[E76]
"Note 2: Sam Brannan, Reporter of the Discovery of Gold." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(March
1932): 23-24.
[E77]
"Note 4: Winter in the Trinity Mines - 1849." Society of California Pioneers Quarterly 9(March 1932):
24.
[E78]
"Old Gold Days: The Discovery of Gold." Land of Sunshine 8(January 1898): 79- 81.
[E79]
"On To the Gold Fields." Pony Express Courier 4(July 1937): 1. (Picture only)
[E80]
"Onions and Gold." Grizzly Bear 72(March 1944): 10. (L.A. Gold 1842)
[E81]
Palais, Hyman. "Some Aspects of the Black Hills Gold Rush Compared with the California Gold Rush." Pacific
Historical Review 15(March 1946): 59-67.
[E82]
Paul, Rodman William. "Mining Frontiers As a Measure of Western Historical Writing." Pacific Historical
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[E83]
Prudhomme, Charles J. "Gold Discovery in California: Who Was the First Real Discoverer of Gold in This State?"
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[E84]
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[E85]
Reid, Anna Morrison. "The Gold Dredging Era." Overland Monthly, second series 39(December 1902): 987-992.
[E86]
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[E87]
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[E88]
"Rocky-Bar Mining Company: Circular." Pacific Historian 22(Fall 1978): 253.
[E89]
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[E90]
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[E91]
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[E92]
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[E93]
Russell, Malcolm. "Four $20.00 Gold Pieces." Siskiyou Pioneer 5:1(1978): 31.
[E94]
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[E95]
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[E96]
Skaar, Sven. "Alpha and Omega." Nevada County Historical Society 12(August 1958): 1-3. (Two mines, Nevada
County)
[E97]
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[E97a]
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[E98]
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[E99]
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[E100]
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[E101]
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[E101a}
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[E102]
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[E103]
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[E104]
Toleman, Vera. "Happy Camp . . . " Siskiyou Pioneer 3:9(1966): 9-35.
[E105]
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[E106]
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[E107]
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[E108]
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[E109]
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[E110]
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[E111]
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[E112]
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[E113]
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[E114]
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[E115]
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[E117]
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[E118]
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[E119]
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[E120]
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[E121]
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[E122]
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[E123]
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[E123a]
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