Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"They cut this trail 'way back in the Fifties," Billy explained.
"I only found it by accident. Then I asked Poppe yesterday. He
was born in the valley. He said it was a fake minin' rush across
from Petaluma. The gamblers got it up, an' they must a-drawn a
thousan' suckers. You see that flat there, an' the old stumps.
That's where the camp was. They set the tables up under the
trees. The flat used to be bigger, but the creek's eaten into it.
Poppe said they was a couple of killin's an' one lynchin'."