The Land Of Glittering Dreams

Images of the California Motherlode and Northern Mines

About the Project

The area itself has been called "more appealing than fiction; more romantic than history". Once the scene of the brawling camps for the great mines, it retains today the nostalgic traces of those extraordinary times, the reality of which is about to slip away from us.

In these images we attempt to encompass its regional landscape, the architecture which the pioneers brought to it, the interiors in which they came to live, and the tender evidences of daily life of times past. Not the cliches of the gold rush area, but the sense of the place and life which was once there.

Images from The Land of Glittering Dreams

American River	Malakoff Diggins	Empire Mine Retort Room
Campo Seco	Schoolhouse French Camp	Swerers Store, Tuttletown
Romaggi Home	Flume	Hotel, DutchFlat
Chew Kee Store, Fiddletown	Cemetery, Hornitos	Empire Mine, Fog
Emmanuel Church, Coloma	Zeisz Brewery, Placerville