Trip to Rapid River, A

DESCRIPTION: "It was on the 25th of March, 1892, There met in Council Valley a jolly mining crew." "You hear of Rapid River! You take the golden fever! Got a pretty girl at home? Go away and leave her!" A group has a hard trip there, but arrive and expect to get rich
AUTHOR: Hannibal F. Johnson (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1895 (Johnson, Poems of Idaho, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: gold mining river home separation hardtimes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 124-125, "A Trip to Rapid River" (1 text)
File: LDC124

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