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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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s who havemade and bulwarked their nation.This is how the desert of Nevada has been peopled within the last four years—it looked good to many thousand menwho wanted to seek gold, and they wentto it, and made cities in the most desolateand forbidding corner of the United States. It is probable that this country will notsee another great gold stampede. Be-fore these latest discoveries were made inNevada, it was generally believed that thefrenzied rush of armies of treasure seekersmust be classed as a vanished part of thefrontier life and conditions. Old pros-pectors, however, with the clamor of Crip-ple Creek still echoing in their memories,would wag their gray beards with a know-ing air and trudge into the desert andamong the mountains, confident that otherbonanzas were waiting to be revealed. Instead of seeking new sources of sup-ply the men with more capital than imagi-nation were devising new methods to work Copyrighted, 1906, by the Outing Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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The Builders 261 over old diggings. Their mighty electricdredges were turning over the placer gravelwashed out by the Forty-niners, and bya miracle of mechanical economy makingit profitable to extract eleven cents worthof gold from a ton of earth. Or theirstamp mills and scientific processes werepounding up and milling the low-gradeore of Alaska and the mountains of theWest. The gold hunter and producer werebeing rapidly stripped of their ancient red-blooded romance of adventure by the pro-saic methods of twentieth-century enter-prise, which have conspired to banish alsothe cowboy and the sailor. Nevada was a butt for jests among hersister states, which delighted to recordsuch items as: Three hoboes were thrown off a trainwhile crossing the Nevada desert the otherday. Their arrival doubled the popula-tion of the county in which they hit thealkali, and a real estate boom was startedon the strength of it. The state of brown, bare mountains andsand and sagebrush was beginning to feelthe

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