Gold Rush songs textual transcriptions and notes on "Joe Bowers," "Betsy from Pike," "I've just got in across the plains," "When I left the States for gold," "Gold," "Come all ye poor ment of the north," "The Dreary Black Hills," "The Rolling stone," "A miner's song," and "The Rolling stone."
Summary
Textual transcriptions and notes of nine songs from the Gold Rush era in California in the mid-1800s. These include "Joe Bowers," "Betsy from Pike," "I've just got in across the plains," "When I left the States for gold," "Gold," "Come all ye poor men of the north," "The Dreary Black Hills," "The Rolling stone," and a variant of "The Dying Californian," performed by John McCready and George Vinton Graham.
Tags
gold miners
california
songs and music
texts
gold mines and mining
songs english
history and criticism
gold discoveries
manuscripts
california gold northern california folk music from the thirties collected by sidney robertson cowell
american folklife center
gold
gold rush songs
miner song
dreary black hills
joe bowers
high resolution
Date
01/01/1938
Location
california
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain