Mother Lode
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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MOTHER LODE belt of gold-bearing quartz veins, central Calif., along the western...River led to the 1848 gold rush. Mark Twain and Bret Harte helped make the Mother Lode famous. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...