Prairie City notes
by Eric Webb
394 “Prairie City Thrives Again at Dedication”, Folsom TelegraphNovember 10, 1950
395 Ibid.
396 Ibid.
397 Plimpton, Collection Box 2 (Middle Fork of the American River), vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
398 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 41
399 Plimpton, Collection Box 2, vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
400 Ibid.
401 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 9
402 Thompson and West, History of Sacramento County, Oakland: Thompson and West, 1880, pg. 225
403 Sacramento County, Sacramento County Assessor Rolls, 1857.
404 “Prairie City” Sacramento (Pictorial) Union, April 1854
405 Thompson and West, History of Sacramento County, 225
406 Sacramento County, Sacramento County Assessor Rolls, 1857.
407 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 11
408 “Prairie City” Sacramento Union, June 22, 1853
409 “Prairie City” Sacramento Union, July 4, 1853
410 Thompson and West, History of Sacramento County, 225
411 Wilson, These Lonely Hills, 54.
412 Plimpton, Collection Box 2, vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
413 “Correspondence of the Union” Sacramento Union, November 23, 1853.
414 “Prairie City” Sacramento (Pictorial) Union, April 1, 1854
415 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 11
416 Ibid.
417 Plimpton, Collection Box 2, vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
418 Ibid.
419 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 11
420 Plimpton, Collection Box 2, vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
421 “Vanished Prairie City” Sacramento Union, January 7, 1906
422 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 42
423 Plimpton, Collection Box 2, vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
424 Ibid.
425 Tordoff, The Evolution of California's Placer Mining Landscape, 52
426 Ibid., 53
427 Ibid., 54
428 Ibid.
420 Ibid., 56-57
430 Plimpton, Collection Box 2, vol. 2 (10 Mile Ford to Junction).
431 Ibid.
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