 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 526 páginas
...somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and " took their...day. It was a scene " to point a moral or adorn a tale." Had some wandering Spirit from another planet looked down upon that valley of death, or upon... | |
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 494 páginas
...somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and " took their...day. It was a scene " to point a moral or adorn a tale." Had some wandering Spirit from another planet looked down upon that valley of death, or upon... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 páginas
...newcomer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold...numerous graves of the valley testify to this day.' * But Mr. Patterson had another object in view than to describe a scene which might ' point a moral... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 páginas
...somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-bed, remained in defiance of disease, and " took their...day. It was a scene " to point a moral or adorn a tale." Had some wandering spirit from another planet looked down upon the valley of death, or upon... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar - 1880 - 410 páginas
...somewhat longer trial ; but the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained, in defiance of disease, and took their chance,...numerous graves of the valley testify to this day." l The low price of gold dust in coin, so peculiar a feature of early Californian experience, is noticeable... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar - 1880 - 446 páginas
...somewhat longer trial ; but the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained, in defiance of disease, and took their chance,...numerous graves of the valley testify to this day." 1 The low price of gold dust in coin, so peculiar a feature of early Californian experience, is noticeable... | |
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1882 - 510 páginas
...somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of these gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and " took their...with what result the numerous graves of the valley may testify to this day. The temptations of gold-finding, indeed, were so great that even such braving... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 páginas
...somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richnsss of the gold-bed, remained in defiance of disease, and ' took their...day. " It was a scene ' to point a moral or adorn a tale.' Had some wandering spirit from another planet looked down upon the valley of death, or upon... | |
 | Sandra Peart - 2003 - 472 páginas
...somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and "took their chance."...this day. It was a scene "to point a moral or adorn a tale." Had some wandering spirit from another planet looked down upon that valley of death, or upon... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 578 páginas
...newcomer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold...numerous graves of the valley testify to this day.' * But Mr. Patterson had another object in view than to describe a scene which might ' point a moral... | |
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... counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold may be purchased too dearly, left the place instantly. Many abandoned it after a somewhat longer trial. But the greater number,... 