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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 286

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long byseventy broad, and built of stone and brick over a hundred years ago, full of beautiful statues andmagnificent paintings, grandly gilded and m dropped down here in this howling wil-derness. It makes one feel almost as queer-ly as when among the ruins of the citiesthat had perished from the… … trip has evidently been a dead failure- do not say so, of course. But theirs is rience. Of the hundreds of thousands that have gone on the same errand since the first gold fever of 1849, not one in ten thousand has done more than make his escape - poorer and a wiser man. And so the search for…

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