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Reality Of A Dream (roughing I - Research Paper

Reality Of A Dream (roughing I

With respect to the fallacies that got many of the miners going, Holmes and Fisher tell a story of two men who staked a claim in the middle of a pasture. The two men said the claim had been assayed at two thousand dollars to the ton. After a rancher read the claim hanging on a sign he told his neighbors and they told their neighbors and so it went until the largest stampede in mining history occurred. People came from all over, leaving their jobs and town and heading for the claim called Diamond Field. Then a man named Bob Womack came to the scene and couldn't figure out why there was gold in this area. Bob was very knowledgeable in the gold business since he was the first to ...

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This shows how greed and the dream of making it rich blinded the peoples reasoning. If the people would have been clear of mind they would have asked questions and then asked more questions before embarking on such an involved venture. Holmes and Fisher summed up the reason for the fiasco when they said, " in every man's mind was the thought of being late and not getting a claim and in every women's mind was the hope their fumbling and ineffectual husband would strike it rich."(431).
The story of the Diamond Field Gold Rush by Holmes and Fischer correlates to how Twain saw and depicts mining in Roughing It . Therefore, I think Twain representation of the miner looking for the quick buck and finding reality is accurate. It is accurate not only because a historical book shows the same thing but also because people can see the same characteristics of mining today in the gambling of today's society in places like ...

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Added: 6/23/2008 12:20:20 AM
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