Down the Mother Lode
Down the Mother Lode - Pioneer Tales of California
By Vivia Hemphill
Foreword
So many inquiries have been made as to exactly where, and what is the "Mother Lode"!
The geologist and the historian agree as to its location and composition, but the old miners and "sojourners" of the vanished golden era give strangely different versions of it. Some of these are here set down, if not all for your enlightenment at least, I hope, for your entertainment.
That is, a ...