Yellow Pine Basin

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Excerpt from Yellow Pine Basin: The Story of a Prospector OF this now fast closing century a picturesque and distinctively American character has been the prospector. The discovery of gold in California awoke in their descendants something of that old ardor which two hundred and more years ago animated the early corners to North America. From Maine to Florida sturdy, adventurous spirits felt the thrill of an inherited tendency which, for so long dormant, reasserted itself, and flocked to the new Golconda. The indolent, the timid, the conservative did not go; but when considerations of convenience, propriety, and duty allowed, the ambitious, assertive young men crossed the plains or took shipping for California. On that distant Pacific coast assembled a community of young men, an aggregation of energy, physical strength, and enthusiasm never before equalled. The wild spirits of youth, the absence of all restraint, the force of early education, the democratic temper mixed with the exhilaration of adventure and the intoxication of the gold thirst. Out of this medley of influences came a class marked and distinctive within the limits of an individualism pertaining to its component parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.