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Orphan boy becomes famed mining magnate from Lafayette Springs
A school project recounts the tale of a boy with a will to learn who leaves his village at twenty one to seek gold. After ten months and a thousand feet, he finds a rich mine, earns fifty thousand dollars, then digs deeper to strike more gold. He becomes a London and New York figure, graduates from Oxford, returns to the United States, and dies after five months back home. LINDER SNEED.
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