title: Gold Rush Widows of Little Falls: A Story Drawn from the Letters Of Pamelia and James Fergus
author: Linda Peavy
description: "These richly detailed letters portray the lives of many 'widows,' who share their fears and hopes, and also provide a vivid description, from James, of life in the mining communities." -- <i>Choice</i>
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  The Blue Flower
  
  
    
    
  [PREFACE  
    
  ](The%20Blue%20Flower_split_001.html#filepos7431)[THE BLUE FLOWER
  
  
    
    
  [THE SOURCE
  
  
    
    
  [I  
    
  ](The%20Blue%20Flower_split_002.html#filepos17760)[II
  
  
    
    
  [THE MILL
  
  
    
    
  [I. How the Young Martimor would Become a Knight
  
  
  and Assay Great Adventure  
    
  [II. How Martimor was Instructed of Sir Lancelot to
  
  
  Set Forth Upon His Quest  
    
  [III. How Martimor Came to the Mill and Stayed in
  
  
  a Delay  
    
  [IV. How the Mill was in Danger and the Delay
  
  
  Endured
  
  
    
    
  [THE MILL
  
  
    
    
  [V. Yet More of the Mill, and of the Same Delay,
  
  
  also of the Maid  
    
  [VI. How the Month of May came to the Mill, and the
  
  
  Delay was Made Longer  
    
  [VII. How Martimor Bled for a Lady and Lived for a
  
  
  Maid, and how His Great Adventure Ended and Began at the Mill
  
  
    
    
  [SPY ROCK
  
  
    
    
  [I  
    
  ](The%20Blue%20Flower_split_005.html#filepos84819)[II  
    
  ](The%20Blue%20Flower_split_005.html#filepos98203)[III
  
  
    
    
  [WOOD