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Adventures in the Apache Country; A Tour Through Arizona and Sonora, with Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada, by J. Ross Browne (New York: 1869) CHAPTER LI. THE LOST LEDGE. THERE is a class of men peculiar to our new mineral territories to whom the world has not yet done justice. In...

While researching some old newspaper accounts of the Lost Adams Diggings I stumbled across these items. No one has ever heard of a feeling of jealousy engendered by a lucky strike, and the sudden transformation of a miner to the position of a bonanza king. All his old friends, and...