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BGHS: Miner’s Lingo (Vocabulary)

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Miner Language 1849

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hi we're going to look at some mining lingo that's vocabulary and a 49er is a gold miner and 18-49 kind of like these guys at the river Biggins Diggins is the mining area The Miner would have a post a punk is a bag of gold dust that they wear on their belt and you don't want your pokes you get a hole in it where are you your goal here is a guy who has all of his grubstake he's got a poke you got his bandana steak is the word 4 miners equipment so here we've got a bandana a lantern we got access trouble maybe the pan definitely a hat tanning is when you separate the goal from the Rock by swirling it in water and to stake his claim you would mark off an area as your very own area and a Claim Jumper would be a minor who steals another miners land color is needs any trace of gold that you might see you starting to see a little color in it might mean that there's more in your social studies book on 237 there are some more mining popular e words in on 238 they talk about the different kinds of Mining and that is what Pitch Pine Billy was telling our characters in our story so you might want to check social studies book as a reference here we go again with her vocabulary 49er the Diggins a poke grubstake to hit Pay Dirt is the fine gold panning take the claim Claim Jumper and color okay that will help you understand the story a little bit more she always

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