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"II - NEW ALMADEN Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7"

"…the spurs had been given to him by a Mexican packer on the Comstock. But why did she restore his primitive and masculine trophies here in Grass Valley, half a lifetime after New Almaden?"

"A GI student in one of his classes reported that he had come across Mary Hallock Foote’s illustrations and writings about New Almaden (in the Coast Range foothills near San Jose, California)."

"Two weeks after Oliver arrived to be married, he was gone again to prepare their house at New Almaden."

"Angle of Repose II NEW ALMADEN"

"Nothing on the trip to New Almaden next day modified her understanding that her lot at first would be hardship. She anticipated her life in New Almaden as she had looked forward to the train journey across the continent."

"I am so afraid when you see me again you will find me poor and common. New Almaden, Dec. 11, 1876"

"Leaving, Mary Prager held their hands and hoped they would be spared the footloose life common to the profession. Why should they ever leave New Almaden?"

"New Almaden, Dec. 2, 1876 My dear girl– Your last letter came to us on our way from the mine to San Francisco for our Thanksgiving excursion."

"there came a letter from Thomas Hudson enthusiastically buying the New Almaden sketch, with whatever illustrations Susan could provide."

"Yet how would she get close to those lives to draw them? She had lived in New Almaden nearly a year and had seen only its picturesque surface."

"Without the pictures I could never have imagined it as it was when they came down to it from New Almaden."

"Decades later, over the mountain at Permanente, not too far from New Almaden, Henry Kaiser would make a very good thing indeed out of the argillaceous and calcareous that Oliver Ward forced into an insoluble marriage in the winter of 1877."

"Now we can have a good trip in, together. It’ll be like going in to New Almaden for the first time."

"“Still remind you of staging in to New Almaden?” Oliver said."

"“We agreed it was a mistake for me to stay so far out of things at New Almaden.” “This isn’t New Almaden.”"

"she told him how she had swung him in it in New Almaden when he was brand new."

"the Fiji mat and the olla with which Oliver had welcomed her to New Almaden."

"There was nobody at New Almaden like Emelita, either."

"packmules and burros, old subjects from New Almaden;"

"Did you know I’ve kept every single letter from you, ever since you went out to New Almaden?"

"…that hung on the piazza in New Almaden, and later served as a bed for Ollie in Leadville."

"…in the comfortable cottage at New Almaden, with Lizzie and Marian Prouse and Oliver all building a protective cushion around her and the doctor only an hour away at Guadalupe;"

"Oliver understands tanning–the children still use between their beds a rug of wildcat skins that he tanned and sewed in New Almaden–and with plenty of cattle and sheep hides available for a song, he promises that our entire library will be in leather by spring."

"she had previously done for New Almaden, Santa Cruz, Mexico, and the canyon."

"But she would work into her New Almaden sketch some of the terror of that black labyrinth, and she might even ask outright what sort of life it was, what sort of promise the New World gave, when a miner who emerged from a deep hole in Cornwall could do no better than dive down another in California, and when his children were carrying water to the mine at ten and pushing an ore car at fifteen."

"I doubt that she looked more angel than woman, as the smitten boy at New Almaden had thought."