Bunny:

The tome to which you refer is Mark Twain's "Roughing It" in which he
discusses his personal adventures as a miner in Aurora as well as his better
known life as a journalist in Virginia City, Nevada.  Great reading.

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Subject: Re: oyster canz


> I don't remember in which of Mark Twain's tomes it appeared, but I recall
> his writing from a Nevada mining town that he used to collect either
oyster
> tins or oyster shells (like those we dug up at Johnny Ward's Ranch) from
the
> trash piles of wealthier inhabitants and toss them on his own trash pile
> hoping to fool others into believing we was a successful journalist.
>     B. Fontana
>
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> From: "Carl Barna" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: oyster canz
>
>
> > Howdy --
> >
> > Were there cans for oysters that are unique to the product and easily
> > recognizable at 19th century mining camp archaeological sites?
> >
> > Perhaps someone could post pictures of such cans?
> >
> > Carl Barna
> > Regional Historian
> > BLM Colorado State Office