SOURCE: “Epilogue: Telling Tales,” in Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, pp. 315-44.
In the following essay, Johnson focuses on the Southern Mines of California, suggesting that because of such factors as the ethnic diversity of the region and its “unruly history” (which did not coincide with typical American tales of success), the Southern Mines have been virtually forgotten by twentieth-century society.
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