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Lost Gold Mines of the American West By Charles Michelson Charles Michelson was born in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1869. He ran away from his Comstock Lode home thirteen years later, eventually becoming a newspaper reporter for William Randolph Hurst’s San Francisco Examiner. In the...

In 1837, a one-legged man named Smith found a mine of wonderful richness in the Colorado Desert. He was piloting a party over the desert from Yuma, when he came to three hills which rose out of the plain. Not being sure of his bearings, he mounted the tallest of the hills to get a view of the...

Major Horace Bell was a "rawhide Californian," who wrote a stirring book about his life and times in the early days of the Golden State. Here's what he had to write about Pegleg Smith: Reminiscences of a Ranger; Or, Early Times in Southern California, by Major Horace Bell (Los Angeles: 1881)...

PEGLEG IS A BLOOMING LIAR. His Mine Proved a Myth by Returned Prospectors. Ex-Sheriff Aguirre and a Party Return from a Fruitless Search. All Peg-leg's Old Landmarks Found and the Place Where the Mine Ought to Be, But No Gold Was to Be Found There. If the historical Pegleg...

The Peg Leg Smith Chronicles - 19th Century Newspaper Articles Peg-Leg Smith.— Nevada Gazette gives the following biographical item, which is characteristic of this old mountaineer : Peg-Leg Smith, whose death was recently announced, as most of our readers are aware, was an old mountaineer...