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THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH H TEXAN SANTA FE EXPEDITION H YELLOW JACKET MINE FIRE H COLORADO CITY, TEXAS
John J. ‘Two-Step Jake’ Hirsch, panning here at age 84 in 1936, sought gold in Alaska and the Yukon for six decades.
The
KLONDIKE JACK LONDON AND WYATT EARP WERE AMONG THOSE WHO JOINED THE 1896–99 GOLD RUSH
THAT TIME THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS INVADED NEW MEXICO— IT DIDN’T GO WELL DISASTER ON THE COMSTOCK LODE: THE 1869 YELLOW JACKET MINE FIRE
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