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Search - The Dutch Flat Chronicles: 1849-1906

The Dutch Flat Chronicles 18491906
Author: Russell Towle, Gay Wiseman

This diffuse portrait of the old Sierra Nevada mining town has been rendered using nearly a thousand letters, articles, essays, and short stories derived from books, magazines and newspapers of the day. — From the Gold Rush of 1849 to the Great Earthquake of 1906, authors such as Alonzo Delano, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Richard Henry Savage help... more » set the stage for the peculiar drama of Dutch Flat. Very extensive selections from the Dutch Flat Enquirer, Dutch Flat Forum, and Placer Times are joined by multitudes of items from the Placer Herald, Placer Argus, Placer Republican, Stars and Stripes, and the Colfax Sentinel, wherein much is learned of the town itself.

From the book's back cover:

"There is a small town hidden away in California?s Sierra Nevada, at just that elevation above sea level where the timber grows tallest and the canyons deepen wildly into gorges, where unknown essences conjure a special magic which made it once the envy of any number of other small towns; its fame was far-flung, but today it is forgotten, a kind of secret Shangri-La with but few devotees, and those few, ready, willing, even eager to retain every ounce of obscurity available to them. The place is called Dutch Flat. It is neither Dutch nor flat, nor has it ever been the one or the other. It has a history grand, rich, peculiar, and of a moment beyond all proportion to its size. Please consider but one element in the strange roster of achievements this village may lay claim to: but first, recall... ?

And so the editor of this painstakingly pieced-together drama invites the reader to examine some of the cultural artifacts that together form a portrait of a quintessentially American time and place. The wild west. The Civil War. California statehood. The ?Big 4? and the Central Pacific Railroad. All of these iconic national memories had deep roots within the culture and landscape of Dutch Flat.

Within will be found stories about the assassinations of two U. S. presidents ~ the derailment of a circus train ~ the short-lived Eureka Hair Factory ~ of sight-seeing excursions on the narrow gauge logging train ~ robberies and heists ~ scandals and feuds ~ the Chinese immigrants and the whites who hated them ~ lingering sad echoes from the vanished native Maidu people ~ ?Chief Weimar? ~ the California Blades, (who took upon themselves the task of murdering any Maidu that disease hadn?t killed first) ~ dances at the Opera House ~ church socials ~ picnics and sleigh rides ~ and always the Mining News?the great gold quest, the lure of riches. For Dutch Flatters, gold was worth washing away the very soil under their town foundations?until the court mandates that shut down the hydraulic mines.

ISBN-13: 9780985443009
ISBN-10: 0985443006
Publication Date: 3/7/2013
Pages: 600
Edition: 2
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Publisher: Giant Gap Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Genres:

History >> Americas >> United States >> State & Local
History >> Europe >> Netherlands

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