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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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Questions of law were settled by locally-elected alcaldes. Penalties for stealing were especially severe because of the near impossi­bility of replacing the simplest articles. At open-air courts like the one shown left, shaving the head, the loss of an ear, or a hundred lashes might be the price of thieving.
The road to the Volcano diggings (below) lay up the valley of the Mokelumne and over a divide. Polo, the wily chief of the local Indians, had declared war on the miners, and the trail through the thick woods was far from safe in the autumn of 1849. Polo's braves had discovered these placers first; the whites had come later and driven them away.
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