on the 4th of July. Literature Dutch Flat has been mentioned or used as a setting by the following authors: Mark Twain, who derided Dutch Flat poetry as "smooth and blubbery" in a small piece for the 1864 Californian. He also noted Dutch Flat as the death place of "George," the subject of his essay "General Washington's Negro Body Servant: A Biographical Sketch." Bret Harte used Dutch Flat as a location for "Muck-A-Muck: A Modern Indian Novel After Cooper" and for "Wan Lee the Pagan." M.K. Hobson sets several scenes in 1876 Dutch Flat in her alternate history fantasy novel The Native Star. Russel Towle "The Dutch Flat Chronicles" is a portrait of Dutch Flat from 1849 to 1906, composed of almost 1,000 newspaper articles, short stories, diary fragments, and poems. These were collected from Dutch Flat's three nineteenth-century newspapers, and many other sources. References External links The Golden Drift Museum Dutch Flat Community Center Dutch Flat Chamber of Commerce Census-designated places in Placer County, California Mining communities of the California Gold Rush Populated places established in 1851 1851 establishments in California Census-designated places in California