“The Fools of Forty-Nine”
Description
Crowds head for California and the gold fields. En route they suffer poverty, hunger, and disaster -- and few find gold. "Then they thought of what they had been told, When they started after gold: That they never, in this world, would make their pile."
Cross references
- cf. "That Is Even So" (plot)
References
- Sandburg, p. 107, "(The Fools of '49)" (1 text found under "Sweet Betsy from Pike")
- Scott-BoA, pp. 184-185, "The Fools of Forty-Nine" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, FOOLS49
- Roud #8058
- BI, San107A