David Watts Barton, host of Capital Public Radio's Insight, interviews Richard & TJ about Queen of the Northern Mines and the wild political and cultural history behind the novel.
Though far from the eastern battlefields, Californians engaged in the controversy and in the actual fighting. • The specter of partisan warfare haunts the Northern Mines.
Why a novel rather than a history book? • An unprecedented cultural kaleidoscope: Nevada (City), the "Queen of the Northern Mines."
California's rough politics: the Broderick-Terry duel. • The Reverend Starr King discovers the joys of gold camp oratory.
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