er perpetrated by Indians
upon the whole river was finished before daylight.

The condition of Longley's body upon its discovery roused the entire
settlement, but the Indians had vanished over the hills and across Bear
river. The chief had gone home at sundown, and it was as impossible to
find those who were on the bar that night, as to distinguish one grain
of sand from another.

The old pier stands to this day, notwithstanding the fierce battering of
the floods of nearly seventy years; a monument enduring long after
the Digger Indians are gone off the face of the earth, as though to
commemmorate the power of the white race and that member of it who gave
up his life at its base.

Grizzley Bob of Snake Gulch

VI

"Be the battle lost or won,
Though its smoke shall hide the sun,
I shall find my love--the one
Born for me!"

--Bret Harte.

Names of settlements in the '49 days were often as "Rough an Ready" as
the reasons for their being!

Most of them spoke, more or less eloquently, for themselves and no man
picked by fame in glowing wise from the heterogeneous mass of persons
could hope to escape a nickname.

A miner was discovered roaming down a river bed minus his nether
garments, and lives to this day in the appellation of Shirt Tail canyon.
Two men fought. One of them lost an eye in the manner indicated by Gouge
Eye. Hundreds of wild geese were wont to gather on a sunny mesa above
the river. It made a splendid level town called Wild Goose Flat. The
plains were covered with "Antelope." The end gate of a prairie schooner
was lost on a hill, and Tail Gate mountain came into being.

Humbug Creek panned light with gold. Red Dog, Hangtown, Round Tent
Claims, Dry Diggings, Let 'Er Rip, You Bet, Yuba Dam, One Horse Town,
and Hell's Delight shriek for themselves, or should!

This, then, is the tale of Grizzley Bob, who mined in Snake Gulch at the
foot of Bear Mountain.

"The bear made straight for me! Old Bull-doze was hangin' onto him
below, somewhere, but I dropped my Killer (gun) and grabbed my knife,
'cause I knew if I didn't get in on him with Slasher it was all up
with both of us. Bear and I took a tight grip on each other and I hit
straight for his heart just as he gave me a swipe in the face.

"We both fell, the bear on top, and then I didn't remember anything for
awhile. When I woke I felt something heavy on my stomach, but I couldn't
see anything for blood."

"Hu-