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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (181054)	7/15/2009 1:54:24 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Well, Eastwood shouldn't quit his day job, but he did OK on that song, didn't he? Part of that movie was filmed in Oregon. I knew somebody who watched them build the set where the gold filters down from the saloon. There is historical background for the idea. In Bannack and Virginia City Montana, it was common for saloon keepers to grow long finger nails, which they used to scoop out a bigger 'pinch' (drinks were a pinch of gold dust). There was always a lot of gold dust escaping miner's pokes. Once a saloon burned down and the ladies of the night panned the ashes for the gold dust that filtered down through the floor. When a road agent named Jose Pizanthia sequestered himself in a log cabin, two Vigilantes came to the door with pistols because they thought he had stolen gold from sluice boxes. He shot both and one died. The rest of the Vigilantes stole a mountain howitzer from a government official who had one and attacked the cabin with it. They blasted the cabin down, and finally fired at the chimney where Pizanthia took refuge. They grabbed him, lynched him from what remained of the cabin porch, and everybody emptied their pistols into his body. Then they burned the place down with him in it. The next day after the ashes cooled they panned the ashes but found no gold. It was not one of their finer moments.