The Forty Niner

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Stock #:587499
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
Artist: John Innes
Publisher: W.G. Macfarlane
Postmark: 1907 Jul-25
Postmark City: Portland
Postmark State: CO
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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"TROILENE" WESTERN TYPES SERIES
The brigade is growing less every year. On the Pacific Coast you may meet many yet, and the tales they will tell you of the stirring days of the great gold rush makes moders methods of gaining wealth seem very prosaic. Here and there throughout the mountains, these old timers may be found still interested in prospecting, or sitting outside a cabin near a claim, trusting that a railroad will son be built, that will make their property of value enough to insure a competence to them is their failing years.

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