I Want to Make the Riffle

DESCRIPTION: "It was an old miner, pick upon his shoulder... 'I want to make the riffle, and I think I'll make it here.'" The miner describes twenty years of hunting, and all he hoped to do once he "made the riffle." He still hasn't, but he keeps drinking and trying
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1960 (South Pass 1868: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest; presumably this means it existed by 1868)
KEYWORDS: mining hardtimes drink
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 138, "I Want to Make the Riffle" (1 text)
File: LDC138

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