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There was loud-mouthed Henry Comstock, called "Old Pancake" because he practically lived on flapjacks. There were Eilley and Lemuel Sanford ("Sandy") Bowers, she a boardinghouse keeper, he an illiterate mule skinner. They had a 20-ft. claim on the richest part of the lode, and at one time were taking $18,000 a week out of it. They built a mansion with solid silver doorknobs, made a trip to Europe to get furniture, tried to get an interview with Queen Victoria...
Central figures are Eilley and Sandy Bowers. Regional history says they were admirable people, but in City of Illusion they are more like monsters-she a driving shrew, he a small, henpecked caricature of pathos. Eilley knows she is going to get rich, and when she is rich she enjoys it. But Sandy is miserable in his fine clothes and fine house, goes off to live in a shack. After Sandy dies of tuberculosis, Eilley loses both her mine and her mansion, ekes out a living taking fees as a "clairvoyant." But adversity alters her iron soul not a whit...
...spend it," said Eilley...
...Graduate School. William James 1G., 6 Departments outside of Cambridge. F. W. Peabody 2M., 2 W. S. Whittemore LM., 2 D. Gregg 2M., 2 LIBRARY COMMITTEE. C. T. Copeland '82, 390 W. C. Lane '81, 377 J. H. Hyde '98, 279 J. D. Eliot '06, 277 O. D. Eilley '06, 269 R. W. Beach '06, 260 S. D. Preston...
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