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"Live Woman in the Mines" by "Old Block" or Alonzo Delano, Extra Rare (126754)

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
 Live Woman in the Mines  by  Old Block  or Alonzo Delano, Extra Rare  (126754)
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150.00USD+ (37.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2020 Dec 18 @ 09:52UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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The plot of this Minor Drama was based on a man and woman who came West, fought hard times and eventually success. The characters were all based on people the author had known in his times in the Gold Rush in California. The author was Alonzo Delano or "Old Block." He was an American humorist, pioneer town father of Grass Valley and a California Gold Rush Forty-Niner. Delano was bitten by the gold bug in 1849, purchased a claim on Massachusetts Hill located near Gold Hill in Nevada County, California. After becoming an agent for Wells, Fargo & Company in Sacramento in 1854, Delano was moved by the company to the Grass Valley branch later that same year. He became the town’s hero when he kept the Wells Fargo Bank doors open during a bank run after a terrible drought had curtailed the area’s mining operations. They rewarded him by electing him as the town’s first city treasurer. He again came to the town’s rescue in 1855 after a fire had ravaged the town. By the mid 1860’s he started a his own bank in Grass Valley handling much of the local’s gold dust. Loose cover. Rips and tears.

Date: 1857
Country (if not USA):
State: California
City: Grass Valley
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