Jane i left you and them boys for no other reason than this to come here to procure a littl property by the swet of my brow so that we could have a place of our own that i mite not be a dog for other people any longer.
— A forty-niner writing to his wife.
(From Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush).
Right on, brother.
Just reading that makes me hope he found enougn gold to buy a bungalow and a small mercantile store.
Man, how could anybody not be on that guy’s side?
So does this mean the internet is like the gold rush of the present?
And we’re the 49ers?
There’s gold in them thar sites.