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This “clue” interests me as it does not fit either of the two common versions of Waltz finding the mine – the Peralta version (Bark/Bicknell/Ely) or Waltz being lost and finding three Mexicans working a mine (Holmes). Seems that some time I have come across it a couple of ...
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- Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:09 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: First the placer
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- Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:18 am
- Forum: LDM Discussions
- Topic: First the placer
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First the placer
There is the story that Waltz said something like – In the morning first he (or he and Wieser) discovered the placer, then in the afternoon they found the mine. What’s the forum’s take on this? Anyone know the origin of this clue? Or, when it first appeared?