Tales of the Argonauts
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Excerpt from Tales of the Argonauts: And Selected Verse All who came to California in the years following 1848 were indeed Goldseekers, and therefore brothers of the Argo´s crew; and the gold which they all sought, most of them came to dig for. But the custom of speech has established a distinction which it behoves us to recognise here, since that distinction was valued by those whom it favoured, and became in later days a local mark of honour, having its psychological, if not its social value, wherever the men of the pioneer times drew together. Goldseekers and voyagers they all had been, but it was to the men of the Great Year alone - the new-comers of 1849 - that the designation of Argonauts came to be distinctively applied. It follows that in giving to this selection from Bret Harte´s works the title which it bears - a title for which we are indebted to a precedent set by the best of all authorities - we are, in fact, using the leading term a little largely, a little beyond or aside from the rigour of its right Californian meaning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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