180 accidents in mining, 2, 19, 65, 94; mining disasters, 2 Adams, Henry, 103 Agricola, Georgius, 16, 138n1 Allende, Isabel, 131–32 Apex Law, 84 Arthurianism, 84, 87, 130 Bacon, Francis, 33 Ballad of Little Jo, The, 131 Bancroft, H. H., 13 Barman, Jean, 101 Bauman, Zygmunt, 17 Belasco, David, 10, 94–95 Berkove, Lawrence I., 6, 42, 55–56, 65, 144n2 Bierce, Ambrose, 9, 26; engagement with miners’ lore, 27–29; “The NightDoings at ‘Deadman’s,’” 9, 26–29, 140n20; view of anti-Chinese sentiment, 26–27 Big Bonanza, The, 15–16, 66, 67 Branch, Edgar M., 69 Browne, J. Ross, 33, 36–37, 52, 141n3 Californian Gold Rush, 26–27, 33, 51; anti-Chinese sentiment, 26–27; ethnic hostilities, 41; placer mining in, 50; population, 48; writing of, 33–53 passim Chilkoot Pass, 112–13; in photographs, 114–15, 116, 117, 127 Chinese miners, 48, 141n23, 141n26; antiChinese sentiment, 24, 26–27, 130, 131 Civil War, 70 Claim, The, 133–34 Clappe, Louise, 9, 42–45, 52; compared with Bret Harte, 44–48 communities, mining, 18, 22, 55, 76–77, 78, 99; non-normative behaviors in, 97, 101–2, 104–5, 107 Conrad, Joseph, 83, 86 Crampton, Frank A., 23 Cripple Creek War, 23, 78–79 Cronon, William, 110 Cruikshank, Julie, 126, 127 “Dame Shirley.” See Louise Clappe Davis, Richard Harding, 18; Soldiers of Fortune, 89–90, 132; The West from a Car Window, 77 Deadwood, 131–32, 133 Delano, Alonzo, 9, 52; A Live Woman in the Mines, 10, 108–9; Pen-Knife Sketches, 41–42 Index Y index 181 De Quille, Dan, 10, 54, 55, 57–58, 66–70, 146n10; The Big Bonanza, 15–16, 66, 67; “Eyeless Fish That Live in Hot Water,” 68; “Letter” to Cedar Falls Gazette, 100–101; “Old Johnny Ranchero,” 67–68; “Torture Unutterable,” 59, 60, 70 Desai, Anita, 134 destruction in mining, 16–18, 19–20, 93; environmental damage, 8, 78, 101, 112, 114; mining as rape, 101 De Voto, Bernard, 54, 68–69 documentary representation of mining, 3, 5, 6, 130, 137n15 Dumett, Raymond E., 96 Dwyer, Richard A., 55, 58 earth: agency of, 29; represented in literature, 30–31; reproductive powers, 97–98; sexualization of, 98. See also underground Eliade, Mircea, 29–30, 97–98 Ellis, Anne, 99–100 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 13 Emrich, Duncan, 55, 141n24 Fender, Stephen, 51, 56, 146n17 Fenn, G. Manville, 115–16 Ferguson, James, 92 First Fam’lies in the Sierras, 102–3 Foote, Mary Hallock, 4, 10, 83–84, 133; art training, 84–85; critical reputation, 84; “In Exile,” 85; John Bodewin’s testimony, 83, 84, 86–87, 132; Leadville portrayed by, 4, 83–84; The Led-Horse Claim, 83, 84, 85–86, 88–89, 150n22; love of Tennyson, 85; view of native nations, 151n30 Foucault, Michel, 91 Francaviglia, Richard V., 2 Gally, James, 54; “Spirits,” 61 Garland, Hamlin, 10, 90, 110; Hesper, 78–79, 80, 86, 88; research on Cripple Creek War, 79; The Trail of the Goldseekers, 113–14, 133 gender and mining, 91, 93, 97; multiethnic gender relations, 99, 101. See also women and mining Germinal, 18–19 Girl of the Golden West, The, 10, 94–95 Goodman, David, 32, 106, 146n11, 151n2 Goodman, Joe, 54, 58–59 Green, Archie, 2, 141n24 Hadley, Elaine, 47 Haggard, H. Rider, 7–8, 18, 82 Hand, Wayland D., 24, 76, 88, 97, 141n24, 154n20 Hardesty, Donald L., 76, 92 hard rock mining, 5, 50; in Nevada, 65–66, 68 Hart, Fred H., 10, 54, 57; “High Fever,” 61; The Sazerac Lying Club, 64–65 Harte, Bret, 4, 6, 9, 33; career, 38–39, 52; compared with Louise Clappe, 42–48; critical reputation, 5, 6, 33, 37–38, 48–49, 51–52, 142n4; eroticism in, 10, 103; fondness for French writers, 47; “The Idyl at Red Gulch,” 103, 104, 106; impact of, 77, 106, 130; Mark Twain on, 54–55; melodrama in the writing of, 42–43, 46–47; “Miggles,” 47–48, 52; “Mliss,” 40, 132, 142n8; “Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands,” 40, 51; “The Outcasts at Poker Flat,” 45–47, 51; parodied, 52–53; portrait of California, 39–41, 47–48, 51, 52; “Tennessee’s Partner,” 105, 106 Harz mining stories, 27–28, 81 Hayden, Asa Thurston, 4 Hayes, A. A., 77–78 Hesper, 78–79, 80, 86, 88 homosociality, 103–8. See also mateship; partners [44.210.107.64] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 19:09 GMT) index 182 Hughes, Langston, 2–3, 4 Hunt Jackson, Helen, 28, 30 Hurtado, Albert L...