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What is the meaning of 'there's gold in them thar hills'?

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I had thought it was a catchphrase from an old comic strip (perhaps Dogpatch) where people were harmless bumpkins and had few phrases of their own, but I find through Google that it comes from one of Mark Twain's books written while he was in California shortly after the Gold Rush. read more

The result was a “Gold Rush.” “There’s gold in them thar hills!” became a catchphrase for prospectors heading west; the old-timey dialect, an amalgam of word usage with origins from all over, is no longer in common use, making it all the more colorful. read more

” Jim Medland Phoenix, Arizona. That comes from Mark Twain’s 1892 novel The American Claimant. read more

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