One of the Great Gold Rush Satires. The joint effort of Alonzo Delano and Charles Nahl, the present work reflects both the cynicism and the optimism among Californians after the initial excitement of the Gold Rush. Each page of the work is...
"Both author and illustrator are characteristically Californian, and few volumes have a truer flavor of the Mother Lode than this result of their combined efforts ... The illustrator collaborated with 'Old Block' in other volumes but this particular...