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Nature and history of gold 53
(a)
(b)
1.18 The gold rush days, Library of Congress, Washington DC: (a) Stampeders
arriving at Gregory diggings, Colorado, in May 1856. From a wood engraving in
Beyond the Mississippi, 1867. (b) Goldfield accommodation for newly arrived
miners for `two bits' per night in sawdust on the floor of a Colorado billiards
saloon (Leslie's Magazine, 1879, in Nolan, 1980).
