Pioneers of El Dorado

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...ejaculated the 'parson. Let's go and take suthin'. Robert Colbert Fugate, the Virginian, still is at his old home on Granite Hill, three or four miles-south of Coloma. He is unmarried, lives alone in his little cabin, and spends most of his days in prospecting, though not with the success of yore. A reader and a student, he finds no diffi-culty in occupying his leisure hours. He has health and contentment, and he faces his waning years and the greater life beyond in perfect serenity.. A member of the society of Territorial Pioneers of '49 and '50, George W. Henry is a typical example of the man who lives mainly in the past. and whose convictions, political and nonpolitical, are those of a half-century ago. His birth--place is Cincinnati, Ohio; the date of his nativity was August 27, 1825. On the 8th of May, 1850, George W. Henry joined the emigration to California, beginning his journey at St. Joseph, Missouri. Reaching Placerville, El Dorado county, August 10,1850, he was first engaged in running the boarding-house at the Empire Hotel; thence going to Coloma, where he secured a position in Winter's Hotel. Afterward, in partnership witha Mr. Clark, he kept a house-furnishing store in the same town, -besides spendingapart of his time in mining. The Coloma of those days was a centre of attraction for the miners of that portion of the county. On Sundays many of the prospectors 'would come to town with their bags of gold--dust, begin gambling and go home penniless at nightfall. ln addition to the saloons and gamblinghalls, long tables were often placed in the prin 'cipal street, and there hundreds of men would sit for hours and...