California And the Californians
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The "Argonauts of '49"were a strong, self-reliant, generous body of men. They came for gold, and gold in abundance. Most of them found it, and some of them retainedit. Following them came a miscellaneous array of parasites andplunderers; gamblers, dive-keepers and saloon-keepers, who fed fat onthe spoils of the Argonauts. Every Roaring Camp had its Jack Hamlin aswell as its Flynn of Virginia, John Oakhurst came with Yuba Bill, andthe wild, strong, generous, reckless aggregate cared little for t...hrift, and wasted more than they earned.
But it is not gold alone that in California has dazzled men with visionsof sudden wealth. Orange groves, peach orchards, prune orchards, wheatraising, lumbering, horse-farms; chicken-ranches, bee-ranches, sheep-breeding, seal-poaching, cod-fishing, salmon-canning--each ofthese has held out the same glittering possibility. Even the humblestventures have caught the prevailing tone of speculation. Industry andtrade have been followed, not for a living, but for sudden wealth, andoften on a scale of personal expenses out of all proportion to theprobable results.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The "Argonauts of '49"were a strong, self-reliant, generous body of men. They came for gold, and gold in abundance. Most of them found it, and some of them retainedit. Following them came a miscellaneous array of parasites andplunderers; gamblers, dive-keepers and saloon-keepers, who fed fat onthe spoils of the Argonauts. Every Roaring Camp had its Jack Hamlin aswell as its Flynn of Virginia, John Oakhurst came with Yuba Bill, andthe wild, strong, generous, reckless aggregate cared little for t...hrift, and wasted more than they earned.
But it is not gold alone that in California has dazzled men with visionsof sudden wealth. Orange groves, peach orchards, prune orchards, wheatraising, lumbering, horse-farms; chicken-ranches, bee-ranches, sheep-breeding, seal-poaching, cod-fishing, salmon-canning--each ofthese has held out the same glittering possibility. Even the humblestventures have caught the prevailing tone of speculation. Industry andtrade have been followed, not for a living, but for sudden wealth, andoften on a scale of personal expenses out of all proportion to theprobable results.
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