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Mother Lode, belt of gold-bearing quartz veins, central Calif., along the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The term is sometimes limited to a strip c.70 mi (110 km) long and from 1 to 6 1-2 mi (1.6–10.5 km) wide, running NW from Mariposa. Popularly it is used to mean the gold-bearing area E of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and W of the Sierra Nevada. The discovery of alluvial gold on the South Fork of the American River led to the 1848 gold rush. Mark Twain Twain, Mark, pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. ..... Click the link for more information. and Bret Harte Harte, Bret (Francis Brett Harte) (härt), 1836–1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. ..... Click the link for more information. helped make the Mother Lode famous. Mother Lode name applied to gold-mining region of California. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 569] See : Treasure How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sustained and lyrical, grotesque and ironic, and always with a tinge of humor just below the sculpted surface, this work displayed not the starkness of Sankai Juku but hearkened back to Kazuo Ohno and earlier schools that regarded German expressionist dance as one of its mother lodes. If you count yourself as one of that pack, though, this is the mother of all mother lodes you've been waiting for. |
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