mining-camps

Chicago (the plains! the Rockies! sunset over mining-camps!), Washington, and the magic Southland — thither the iron horses would be galloping, their swarthy smoke manes whipped back by the whirlwind, pounding out with clamorous strong hoofs their sixty miles an hour.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Western mining-camps, and furnished the same uncertainty of play.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The mining-camps and the wire fences are crowding the once ruling race of Onas into the useless forest-covered lowlands and the ice-covered highlands of the interior, where they must either starve or freeze or perish at the hands of Caucasian invaders.

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego 1996

Reviewing, in his history, almost everything accessible, worthy of consideration, in connection with mining-camps, it is noteworthy that the Doctor has much to say concerning the Shirley

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

What could a creature brought up by a wandering card-sharp in mining-camps and frontier towns offer for rescue and redemption?

The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

It is likely enough that such a set could be got in one of the mining-camps, and I must make a short journey to Bismark and perhaps further west in search of gear.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

They are to be found on farms, in mining-camps, in women's clubs, in churches, jails, and lunatic asylums, and the nearest approach to a release from them is to be fashionable, for in society nobody ever is allowed to finish a sentence.

From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

Their golden harvest has made the state richer than they found it, for they used the wealth to build cities, to cultivate farming-lands, and to plant orchards and vineyards where the mining-camps used to be.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

Marvellous accounts of the extent and richness of the gold-diggings were now brought to town by traffickers in provisions for mining-camps.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

This article, one of the most harrowing to be found in print, spread through the early mining-camps, and has since been quoted by historians and authors as an authentic account of scenes and conduct witnessed by the first relief corps to Donner Lake.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton