A Peep at Washoe

Illustrations for "A Peep at Washoe" by J. Ross Browne, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, p. 4, December 1860, Harper Brothers, New York. Image on first page of article is signed "Stephens" (first name unknown to me). All images in the article appear to be the same artist.

The main topic of the article is the silver rush in the Washoe Valley of what was then the Utah Territory and is now the U.S. state of Nevada. However, several of the first pictures relate to gold rushes in the decade before that silver rush.

Illustrations from the first installment, Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, p. 4-17, December 1860

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  Title page
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  Title page illustration, no text
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  "The Bummer": a bummer was a successfully retired miner, in this case after the '49 California Gold Rush
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  Going to Kern River: the Kern River (California) gold rush of 1853
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  Returning from Kern River
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  Ho! For Frazer (sic) River: the Fraser Valley (British Columbia) gold rush of 1858
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  Returned from Frazer (sic) River
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  Hurrah for Washoe!
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  Washoe Agency
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  "I say, Cap!"
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  Vision of "ten thousand grotesque figures in the shape of dollars with spider legs, shrieking with all their might, 'Washoe! ho! ho! Washoe! ho! ho!'"
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  "Go it, Washoe!"
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  The Pocket Pistol
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  Carambo!—Caraja!—Sacramento!—Santa Maria!—Diavolo!
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  Whisky Below
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  Board and Lodging
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  Grindstones
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  A Speculator
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  Dinner at Strawberry
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  The "Lay Out"
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  The Stocking-Thief

Illustrations from the second installment, Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, p. 145-162, January 1861

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  Carson City
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  The Trail from Strawberry
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  "We Are Waiting for You"
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  A Short Cut
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  Diogenes
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  The Stage
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  Devil's Gate
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  Virginia City
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  A Question of Title
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  Gold Hill
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  "My Claim, Sir"
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  San Francisco Speculators
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  A Fall
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  Assay Office
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  The Comstock Lead
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  "Silver, Certain, Sir!"
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  The Claims
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  "Indications, Sure!"