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Put's original California songster : giving in a few words what would occupy volumes, detailing the hopes, trials and joys of a miner's life.

Title
Put's original California songster : giving in a few words what would occupy volumes, detailing the hopes, trials and joys of a miner's life.
Publication
  • San Francisco : D. E. Appleton, 1868.
  • ©1854

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TextSupervised use Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. p.v.1Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Additional Authors
  • Stone, John A.
  • D.E. Appleton & Co.. pbl
Description
vi, 64 p.; 15 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Songsters.
  • Song texts.
Note
  • Without music; tunes indicated.
  • On cover: 5th edition, 25th thousand.
  • Attributed to John A. Stone.
  • In original paper covers.
Contents
Preface -- The fools of ’49 [air: Commence, you Darkies all] -- A life by the cabin fire [air: A life on the ocean wave] -- Prospecting dream [air: Susannah] -- Crossing the plains [air: Caroline of Edinburgh] -- California as it is and was [air: I remember] -- Away up on the Yuba [air: Old folks at home] -- Seeing the elephant [air: Boatman dance] -- Australia and the Amazon [air: Emma Snow] -- Hunting after gold [air: Combo] -- Joaquin, the horse-thief [air: Now, I warn all you darkies not to love her] -- Striking a lead [air: Dan Tucker] -- An honest miner [air: Low back car] -- Arrival of the greenhorn [air: Jeanette and Jeanot] -- California bloomer [air: Lucy Long] -- The gambler [air: Bob-tail mare] -- Coming around the horn [air: Dearest May] -- Gold Lake, and the Gold Bluff [air: Fisherman’s daughter] -- The national miner [air: Massa’s in the cold ground] -- Emigrant from Pike [Nelly was a lady] -- Humbug Steamship Companies [Uncle Sam’s farm] -- My log cabin home [air: Kentucky home] -- When I went off to prospect [King of the Cannibal Islands] -- The lousey miner [air: Dark-eyed sailor] -- The miner’s lament [air: Lilly Dale] -- The Sonora filibusters [air: Ben Bolt] -- Honest John and William Relief [air: Oh, wasn’t I glad!] -- Good news from home -- Melting accident -- Life among the miners -- The abandoned claim : parody -- Poker Jim [air: Raging canal] -- An oft-told tale -- Gold : parody / by Mrs. Mary Dunn -- Old Zenas -- Josh, John -- Miners ups and downs -- Backbone.
Call Number
NBF p.v. 100
LCCN
10004329
OCLC
5628386
Title
Put's original California songster : giving in a few words what would occupy volumes, detailing the hopes, trials and joys of a miner's life.
Publisher
San Francisco : D. E. Appleton, 1868.
Copyright Date
©1854
Edition
4th edition, 18th thousand.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Copy in Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer.: bound with 5 other songsters.
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Added Author
Stone, John A.
D.E. Appleton & Co.. Publisher
Research Call Number
NBF p.v. 100
Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. p.v. 1, no.1
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