Mules and Mustangs on the Tuolumne Packing Trail
Special correspondence recalls packing beef for miners during the California gold rush era. A mule train carries slabs of jerky, flour, potatoes, and whiskey through canyons along the Tuolumne river. The author, nicknamed The Mad Expressman, narrates mule tantrums, storms of dust and flour, and the perilous quirks of pack animals while detailing life in Hawkins Bar and river canyons.
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Wantrucker
Mass
California
Tuolumne
Maustang
Cortes
Yellow Jackets
Mustang
Hawkin’ Bar
Quartz Rock River
Hawkins’ Bar
American Feather
Mokelumne
Calaveras
Stanislaus
Youle
The Last Publisher of Stereotype Books Dies at 91
Uriel Crocker, longtime Boston publisher of religious and educational works and head of Crocker & Brewster, died at Cohassett Mass aged 91. Born in Marblehead, he began as an apprentice in 1811 and formed a lasting partnership with Osmyn Brewster, a bond that endured sixty two years and survived financial upheavals.
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Niagara Creek
Judge Davis
United States District Court
Mono County
Yaller
Prentice Mulford
America
Boston
Uriel Crocker
Cohassett
Mass
Crocker & Brewster
Armstrong
Marblehead
Samuel Armstrong
Cornhill Street
Osmyn Brewster
New York
Jonathan Leavitt
Daniel A. Appleton
Crocker and Brewster Firm Founder Dies
Uri el Crocker and wife describe the great publishing house of D Appleton & Co. The Crooker firm rose to fame with Scott family Bible in six royal octavo volumes becoming the first large work stereotyped in America. Crocker amassed a fortune and backed railroads and public works. Last year the firm marked the seventy fifth anniversary of their meeting in Armstrongs office with eminent guests. He leaves two sons and a daughter.
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Uriel Crocker
D. Appleton & Co
Crocker & Brewster
America
Talking of philosophers and office seekers in Washington
New York letter writer recalls Concord Massachusetts gatherings of philosophers and the career of Josh Billings aka Uncle Esek. He contrasts Emerson Shaw with Bill Nye, notes Shaw’s proverbs praised by Lincoln, and ends with a shopkeeper’s absurd office hunger story amid national buzz about government jobs.
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Peri
New York
Hegel
Kant
Emerson
Concord
Mass
United States
Massachusetts
Esek
Josh Billings
Shaw
Windsor Hotel
Josh
Westminster Review
Essa
Lincoln
Esop
Solomon
Bill Nye
West
Mr. Shaw
Artemus Ward
Bob Ingersoll
Moses
Monuments Along the Hudson Aims and Anecdotes
Special Correspondent visits Tarrytown and nearby sites to survey monuments from the Revolutionary era and early republic. The piece recalls the Andre affair and John Paulding captors, Irving graves, Delavan statue, Washington Irving memorials, Stony Point, and historic houses, urging reflection on national memory along the Hudson.
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Tarrytown
Washington Monument
Valley of the Hudson
New York City
Troy
Andre
Cyrus Field
Hudson
Tappan
John Paulding
David Wiliams
Isaac van Wart
van Wert
Tan Ytown
All of the Same Color Horse Troops In Regiments
A short note from the Globe-Democrat discusses officer practices to enlist horses of uniform color across regiments. It notes bay horses are easiest to procure, with multiple troops of bay in each regiment, while blacks and grays are harder to obtain and roan troops may be more feasible.
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Globe-Democrat
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Pacific
Washoe
Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Republic
Youngstown
Tatrick
Federal Street
Berorrah
Washington
Newspaper Row
Tors
Christ's Church
Episcopal
Washington Irving
Sleepy Tollow
Irving Plat
Delavana
Gen
Daxten Delavan
Col. Delavan
Janus CocaRaxe
Stony Point
Treason Hill
Joshua Hett Smith
Arnold
West Point
J.B Parxy
Greenland
Nelson Greenland
Warren
Alovitchs
Pel Ola AY Vacca
Ieheyas Iesite
Mihalovitch
Fletcher & Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
M. Mead
Rogers
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