Gold Miner's Daughter: A Memoir of Boom, Bust and Bliss in the High Sierra

Sierra City was booming when young Mabel Thomas arrived in this California gold mining town in 1885. Her father was part of a Cornish diaspora that sent a generation of men from the declining copper and tin mines of southwest England in the mid-19th century to mines opening around the world. Mabel remembers her girlhood at the Sierra Buttes mine, where her home was bolted to the mountain to withstand fierce winter winds. Gold Miner's Daughter offers a young girl's view into makeshift towns where one could dine on fresh oysters and fine liquor one day, then contract smallpox or be buried in an avalanche the next. It's an intimate story filled with family love and community spirit, edited and introduced by Mabel's great-niece Laura Thomas, a former editor and writer at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Author: Mabel W. Thomas
Publisher: Laura Thomas
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780692818084

About the Author
Thomas, Mabel W.: - Mabel Thomas was born in Grass Valley, California in 1878 and lived at the Sierra Buttes Mine for two years and in Sierra City, California until 1896 when she moved to Oakland. She graduated from San Jose Teachers College in 1897 and the University of California at Berkeley in 1901. She had a long career in the Oakland Public Library, retiring in 1948 as chief reference librarianThomas, Laura Romanin: - Laura Thomas was born in 1952 in Nurnberg, Germany, grew up in Oakland, California and graduated in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley in Journalism. She spent 35 years working on northern California daily newspapers, the Davis Enterprise, Sacramento Bee, Napa Register, Vallejo Times-Herald, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle as well as the national magazine, U.S. News and World Report.

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