Infinite Wealth of the Land
"The idea that the wealth of the American West was inexhaustible drove prospectors back and forth across the plains, and fostered these legends about the life of the gold-hunters: their…
California Tale
"California instils a respect for meum and tuum [mine and thine] ; he had made a 'pile' at the diggings—you never meet a man who has been there and has not—and had lost…