Down the Mother Lode

A collection of stories based on the lives of miners and life in mining towns during the California Gold Rush. It was first published in 1922. The book contains the following: One Sunday in Stinson's Bar, The Tom Bell Stronghold, The Hanging of Charlie Price, «Rattlesnake Dick,» Indian Vengeance, Grizzley Bob of Snake Gulch, Curley Coppers the Jack, The Race of the Shoestring Gamblers, The Dragon and the Tomahawk, and The Barstow Lynching