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Jacksonvelle Gold Miners Lack Amusement and Female Companionship

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In the early 1850s,itwashard to have fun in the Jacksonville, Oregon, mining camps. A miner expresseditwell in a letter to the Oregon Statesman newspaper in 1853...

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Alice Mullaly