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• 	©2006 by James "Jimmy Sierra" Normandi

An action-packed, true story of a son of the Emerald Isle who struck paydirt in the Golden State

The story of Irish immigrant Michael McGuire who headed to the California gold fields in 1849, shortly after his arrival in the United States. After finding a rich placer lode near what is now Grass Valley, he returned East for his wife and son, resettling permanently there.

An entertaining account written by a grandson of Michael and Mary McGuire.

Frontispiece map of the Grass Valley mining district.

Published by Cal Con., 1981, paperback, 194 pages.

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