The Miner's Fate single work   short story   thriller  
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 The Miner's Fate
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Three miners, a Cornishman, a Spanish Indian and a young American go prospecting for gold in Colorado in 1850. Tired of fruitless digging the American is abandoned by the other two down the mine shaft - and he contrives a rope to escape. A few feet from the top it parts ... (PB)

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  • From San Francisco Chronicle

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