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Word: wretches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pioneer Mining in California," Mr. E. G. Waite protests against the flippant style and eccentric rhetoric of those writers who have made the early California miner a terror, or "who, seizing upon a sporadic case of extreme oddity, some drunken, brawling wretch, have given a caricature to the world as the typical miner." Mr. Waite draws a clean-cut picture of the early mining years and the early miner which is delightfully interesting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Century. | 5/5/1891 | See Source »

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