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Cowboy True’s Christmas Adventure.
Prospectors and mining camp followers in the Gold Country in 1869 began making plans for lavish Thanksgiving celebrations in late October. According to the October 20, 1869 edition of the Daily Alta newspaper, boarding house owners attracted Argonauts and camp followers for miles around to enjoy the holiday with them. “Judging from the number of Balls coming off, the people of El Dorado seem determined to have a happy time at the “Thanksgiving Ball” that is to be given at the Nevada House in Georgetown,” the Daily Alta article read. “The managers will accept your thanks with a purchase of a ticket. In addition to the ball a feast will be served including turkey and all the trimmings. The history of Thanksgiving Day reaches back to the early colonial days, when a little band of strong hearted and earnest men and women who had ventured across the seas in search of freedom and life and liberty came to this country.”
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Cowboy True’s Christmas Adventure.
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