Category: Miner’s Daughter
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Too High For His Nut
Definition: — beyond someone’s grasp, or beyond their station or where they should be grasping. “That rascal wants to be paid like a senator. He is getting too high for his nut.” Definition derived from the grammar-corrected version of the Oakland, CA, Tribune on Jan. 12, 1885.
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Coal Miner’s Daughter – What was it like?
I was a kid. I had no clue to the danger Daddy faced everyday. Living in a mining camp was heaven to me. At the age of four, I had free reign of the holler and the mountains around it. We were related to most folks on the road and friends with the others. My cousins and…
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Alaskan Gold Rush
1887-1888 Prospectors Involved 100,000 set out. 30,000 arrived in the Klondike Success Rate Around 4,000 found gold – See more at: http://www.historynet.com/klondike-gold-rush#sthash.otU5f7oY.dpuf
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Shoddyocracy
Historical Slang Definition: People who provide shoddy services or sell shoddy material. “The wagon I bought from the shoddyocracy of a town blacksmith, busted to shambles upon our trip west.” … Lyndi Rees
Lynda Rees, Author, The Murder Guru 