The Elusive Eden Chapter Ten
Dame Shirley

1. Who was Dame Shirley?
2. What was Rich Bar?
3. What was a “rag city?”
4. What did Louisa Clapp think about the California Natives?
5. What was the original purpose of the Empire Hotel? What features made it noteworthy? Who was the proprietor?
6. What other women were in the gold camps? What types of business did they engage in?
7. What was a “Long tom?”
8. What was “top dirt,” “Bed-rock,” and “coyote holes?”
9. What happened on Sundays?
10. How big a claim did miners recognize? How did miners maintain their claims and what was a “miners’ meetin?”
11. What were “Spaniards?”
12. What did Louisa Clapp do following her adventures in the gold camps?