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xi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Ho! For California -- Oh, California -- O! California -- Arrival of the San Francisco -- California over the left -- You who don't believe it -- Coming around the horn -- A ripping trip -- The fools of '49 -- Humbug steamship companies -- Loss of the "Central America" -- Crossing the plains -- Sweet Betsey from Pike -- Arrival of the greenhorn --That is even so -- Emigrant from Pike -- Seeing the elephant -- Joe Bowers -- Poker Jim -- Hunting after gold -- We are all a panning -- An oft-told tale -- Away upon the Yuba -- When I went off to prospect -- Striking a lead -- Prospecting dream -- Poor diggings -- A miners' meeting -- He ought to know! -- Australia and the Amazon -- An honest miner -- The sensible miner -- The happy miner --That's the way to talk it -- The national miner --The Pike County miner -- A life by the cabin fire -- My log cabin home -- War in camp --The mountain cottage -- The shady old camp -- Life in California --The gambler -- John Chinaman's appeal -- City council -- Rushing panic in San Francisco -- John Chinaman, my Jo -- Couldn't stand the press -- John Chinaman -- The rowdy -- California bloomer -- Hangtown gals -- California ball -- Sacramento gals -- He's the man for me -- California humbugs --The steam navigation thieves -- California Stage Company -- California Legislature -- Honest John and William Relief -- California bank robbers -- Joaquin the horse-thief -- The Sonora filibusters -- Gold lake and gold bluff -- The unhappy miner -- The lousy miner -- The vocal miner -- The miner's lament, I -- he miner's lament, II -- The miner's lament, III -- I'm sad and lonely here --I often think of writing home -- The miner's dream -- And thus he spoke -- Do they miss me at home? : a parody -- The last good-bye -- Then hurrah for home! -- The miner's farewell -- The ragged coat -- On board the steamer -- California as it is and was -- Old forty-nine -- The days of '49 -- The good old days of '50, '1, and '2 -- Ye ancient Yuba miner, of the days of '49 -- Song of the Argonauts -- The land we adore -- Oh my darling Clementine. |
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California -- Gold discoveries -- Songs and music.
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California. |
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Gold mines and mining. |
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Songs and music.
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| Subject |
Folk songs, English -- California.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Folk songs, English.
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Notated music.
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Notated music.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Music.
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Music.
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| Added Author |
Lingenfelter, Richard E.
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