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This diffuse portrait of the old Sierra Nevada mining town has been rendered using nearly a thousand letters, articles, essays, and short stories derived from books, magazines and newspapers of the day.
From the Gold Rush of 1849 to the Great Earthquake of 1906, authors such as Alonzo Delano, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Richard Henry Savage help set the stage for the peculiar drama of Dutch Flat. Very extensive selections from the Dutch Flat Enquirer, Dutch Flat Forum, and Placer Times are joined by multitudes of items from the Placer Herald, Placer Argus, Placer Republican, Stars and Stripes, and the Colfax Sentinel, wherein much is learned of the town itself.
From the book's back cover:
"There is a small town hidden away in California’s Sierra Nevada, at just that elevation above sea level where the timber grows tallest and the canyons deepen wildly into gorges, where unknown essences conjure a special magic which made it once the envy of any number of other small towns; its fame was far-flung, but today it is forgotten, a kind of secret Shangri-La with but few devotees, and those few, ready, willing, even eager to retain every ounce of obscurity available to them. The place is called Dutch Flat. It is neither Dutch nor flat, nor has it ever been the one or the other. It has a history grand, rich, peculiar, and of a moment beyond all proportion to its size. Please consider but one element in the strange roster of achievements this village may lay claim to: but first, recall... ”
And so the editor of this painstakingly pieced-together drama invites the reader to examine some of the cultural artifacts that together form a portrait of a quintessentially American time and place. The wild west. The Civil War. California statehood. The “Big 4” and the Central Pacific Railroad. All of these iconic national memories had deep roots within the culture and landscape of Dutch Flat.
Within will be found stories about the assassinations of two U. S. presidents ~ the derailment of a circus train ~ the short-lived Eureka Hair Factory ~ of sight-seeing excursions on the narrow gauge logging train ~ robberies and heists ~ scandals and feuds ~ the Chinese immigrants and the whites who hated them ~ lingering sad echoes from the vanished native Maidu people ~ “Chief Weimar” ~ the California Blades, (who took upon themselves the task of murdering any Maidu that disease hadn’t killed first) ~ dances at the Opera House ~ church socials ~ picnics and sleigh rides ~ and always the Mining News—the great gold quest, the lure of riches. For Dutch Flatters, gold was worth washing away the very soil under their town foundations—until the court mandates that shut down the hydraulic mines.
- Sales Rank: #2893530 in Books
- Published on: 2013-03-07
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x 1.36" w x 8.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 600 pages
About the Author
Russell Towle, a tireless explorer in the wild river canyons that form the broader setting of this historical panorama, learned to know the local landscape both through the soles of his feet, and through dogged research, while sifting through special collections of local, state and online libraries. This book follows the trail of his fascinations, leading the reader deep into the roots of American history and culture through an unvarnished look at the complex, fateful history of this California Sierra Nevada foothills town.
“Since I am entirely bereft of anything like credentials, and have no hope nor even desire to impress the learned, or assume some mighty position in the ranks of real scholars, I find myself free to tell the story as I see fit. So, it is more than just the source of the Nile, it is the long path which led me there, which I shall describe. Since so much of the history of Dutch Flat involves gold, and gold mining, there is much of geology and geography which must be discussed. Since this too has much to do with the whys and wherefores of building a Pacific Railroad by way of Dutch Flat, we may as well begin here.”
~ Russell Towle, from his Introduction to the
DUTCH FLAT CHRONICLES, 1849–1906
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
On the virtues of local histories
By M.M. Henderson
The "Dutch Flat Chronicles" is a large, handsome, coffee table-worthy book, and a real gift of intelligence we might not otherwise have if it weren't for archiving by libraries of local newspaper articles and stories, and in this case, the interest and diligence of Russell Towle to collect and present these stories of the Gold Rush era mining town, Dutch Flat, California, in which he lived. These verbatim accounts cover fifty years of bare-knuckle striving and building, not only by get-rich-quick gold seekers, but also the organization, energy, and physical effort it took to build a transcontinental railroad and highway over the Sierran summit. In the Dutch Flat of today, where the wagon trails crossed, traces still remain.
Aside from being so much fun to read, another virtue of this book is the measure it gives the reader of how difficult it is to translate the realities of those days (hardships) with those of today (loud fast rules), and by extrapolation how unimaginably mystifying our clamorous 'present' will be to those intentionally looking back from one hundred years hence. In style it has both truth and charm, thanks to the liveliness of the writers of the time. Russ Towle has written an introduction to give the reader a broader picture of the terrain as well - from the long view of its geologic history, including how gold is formed in the first place, to a comprehensive description of the flora and fauna of the American River watershed. This gives us present-day readers the perspective of what qualities of life, over time, whether looking backward or forward, actually pretty much stay the same. It's been left to the reader to decide where the comparisons lie.
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