Bacon and Beans From a Gold Pan by George HoeperMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
One of my top favorite reads of the year!
Wasn't expecting to be so engaged with the stories told here. It's written like an autobiography, as a first person account, but a different person wrote the book. Set during the depression, a young couple head to the Sierras, to the Mother Lode to earn their meager living by mining for gold. They call it being a sniper, along the rivers getting the fine gold flakes that the '49ers left behind as not worth it.
It's not the best written book, and wasn't expecting that. It certainly was entertaining with the tales, and in a few instances can see how society has changed. Often people helped out each other, and when a forest fire came through, everyone pitched in to help.
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