"These Yodling Loggers Quit Peavy for Gold Pan"
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These three miners were part of a quartet that supplemented their timber work with singing in the Bitterroots. With little work in the mountains, they came to the placer mining school.
Source: April 29, 1933, Spokane Daily Chronicle.
This file appears in: Gold Fever
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