After years of fruitless digging, a humble miner at Rough-and-Ready finally turns up a piece of quartz shot with gold, and walks off in a daze. The strike makes him a millionaire, and the story follows what sudden wealth does to him, his wife and his children as they try to rise in California society.
A wry, kindly Harte story of the gold country, by the master of the mining-camp tale. Download the free EPUB.