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"All and everybody, this is my claim, fifty feet on the gulch, cordin to Clear Creek District Law, backed up by shotgun amendments."
By: | Anonymous Gold Miner (more quotes by Anonymous Gold Miner or books by/about Anonymous Gold Miner) |
Source: | wooden post during California gold rush, c. 1849, Quoted in John Umbeck, "Might Makes Rights: A Theory of the Formation and Initial Distribution of Property Rights", Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19 (January 1981), p. 50; from C. Shinn, Land Laws of Mining Districts (John Hopkins University Press, 1984), p. 558. |
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