We Came to Tamichi

DESCRIPTION: "We came to Tamichi in 1880, Looking for mineral all the hills o'er... Till our feet were all blistered, our legs were all sore." They have to pay tolls. They have poor food. They list all the others around the worked-out patches, and prepare to leave
AUTHOR: Scott Judy and Doc Hammond (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (Colorado Writers' Project, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining hardtimes travel
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 139, "We Came to Tamichi" (1 text)
NOTES [20 words]: I feel as if this might have been set to "Farewell to Tarwathie," although there is no evidence that it was ever sung. - RBW
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File: LDC139

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