Gold Miner's Daughter: A Memoir of Boom, Bust and Bliss in the High Sierra - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mabel W. Thomas, Laura Romanin Thomas (Editor)Publish date:2017-01-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Laura ThomasISBN-13:9780692818084ISBN-10:692818081UPC:9780692818084Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SC440Q3DJ7
Gold Miner's Daughter: A Memoir of Boom, Bust and Bliss in the High Sierra
Sierra City was booming when young Mabel Thomas arrived in this California gold mining town in 1885. Her father was part of a Cornish diaspora that sent a generation of men from the declining copper and tin mines of southwest England in the mid-19th century to mines opening around the world. Mabel remembers her girlhood at the Sierra Buttes mine, where her home was bolted to the mountain to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Laura ThomasISBN-13:9780692818084ISBN-10:692818081UPC:9780692818084Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SC440Q3DJ7
Thomas, Mabel W.: - Mabel Thomas was born in Grass Valley, California in 1878 and lived at the Sierra Buttes Mine for two years and in Sierra City, California until 1896 when she moved to Oakland. She graduated from San Jose Teachers College in 1897 and the University of California at Berkeley in 1901. She had a long career in the Oakland Public Library, retiring in 1948 as chief reference...
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