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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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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Supervised use | Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. p.v.1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Stone, John A.D.E. Appleton & Co.. Publisher
- Research Call Number
- NBF p.v. 100Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. p.v. 1, no.1