Sentence examples for california mining from inspiring English sources

That's Lucy Whipple, who must adapt to life in a California mining camp during the gold rush.

This wasn't always the case, as I know from my research on lynchings in the California mining camps.

Armour earned his first capital in California mining endeavours and cofounded a grain-dealing and meatpacking business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1863.

He barnstormed through the California mining towns and, in 1854 55, toured Australia and the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) with the actress Laura Keene.

Puccini based his opera on David Belasco's play, "The Girl of the Golden West," about the blossoming of true love in a California mining town during the gold rush, circa 1850.

From the moment he published his tall tale of the California mining camps, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," in 1865, the name Mark Twain began to romp around the world.

In 1889, members of the California gold mining town Bodie commemorated Garfield's life and death by inscribing his name on a cenotaph located in Miners Union Cemetery in Bodie.

Chris Lewicki, the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, likens asteroid mining to the California gold rush and the exploration of the American West.

Meanwhile, in Canada, the British director Michael Winterbottom is shooting a frontier version of Thomas Hardy's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge"; in the film, an Irish immigrant sells his wife and child for a mine during the California gold rush of 1849 and 18 years later seeks to reclaim his daughter.

The plan is to buy California from Santa Anna using gold mined from Santa Anna's own land.

Covered California says this massive data-mining project is essential to measure the quality of care that patients receive and to hold health insurers and medical providers accountable under the Affordable Care Act.