Shirt-tail

Shirt-tail Diggin's consisted of a collection of tents and of lean-to shacks made of boughs and canvas, three or four log cabins, and a store, scattered along the side of the valley, amidst great trees.

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

Charley and Billy uttered another war-whoop, together, and in a mutual hug gave a kick-up Indian dance -- but Shirt-tail

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

Somebody hustled back with flour, somebody else with bacon; Shirt-tail camp fairly fought for the privilege of handing these and other supplies in, to the wagon, and there was added a buckskin sack half full of dust.

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

Straightaway he led, down the first ravine out of Shirt-tail, up the other side, and into a draw or pass which wound among the hills.

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

"This is the Shirt-tail Diggin's, stranger, where everybody's happy and the goose hangs high."

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

"Hooray for the first woman in Shirt-tail Diggin's!" rose the cheer, and the crowd surged forward excitedly.

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

'Shirt-tail bend,' and that remedied the evil, as it

The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports 1854

We were soon off, and at about four in the afternoon of the second day, we reached a landing, within a stone's throw of Jepsey James 'house, just below the Shirt-tail bend in the Mississippi.

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England 1854

These are the Shirt-tail diggin's, "replied Charley.

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

Californy, and these are the Shirt-tail Diggin's, the best on 'arth. "

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911