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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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Southwest the Course 101
Overcrowding, jealousy of others' success, the bickering of bored men in a strictly masculine soci­ety, all these were creat­ing in the camps a spirit very different from the happy-go-lucky spirit which had prevailed through the earlier half of 1849. Tempers were hair-trigger.
The regions about the American, the Cosumnes and the Mokelumne Rivers were still the scenes of greatest activity. As Bayard Taylor took the trail over steep spurs to the Lower Bar diggings on the Mokelumne (below), he noted that the companies of miners had built dams in order to divert the water and lay the river bed bare. Every part of the gulch had been explored by the picks of the gold-seekers.
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