Excerpt from The Knoxville Mining District, the McLaughlin Gold Mine, Northern California, 1978-1995, Vol. 3Imagine, if you would, what it would be like to have a series of interviews from people of all walks of life from a nineteenth century mining town and district-for example, a Fiddletown, California; a Silver City, Idaho; or a Caribou, Colorado. Would it not be exciting to hear first hand the stories of miners, store owners, lawyers, teachers, and a variety of other folks that make up the mining West?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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