Augusta Stringle Cruikshank
Augusta Stringle Cruikshank was a cook who famously jilted pioneer miner William D. “Willey” Cruikshank.
WORK: Cooked at Tidballs Hotel in Jolon.
ENGAGEMENT TO WILLEY: Willey Cruikshank “thinking her a poor girl who would appreciate his generosity, gave her $500 to buy her trousseau in San Francisco.” Instead, “Augusta, with Willey’s money, fled to Portland to marry a girlhood sweetheart.” This was enough for Willey - he “had no more use for the women.”
MARRIAGE: Eventually married John D. Cruikshank, Willey’s cousin.
Married: John D. Cruikshank
gold mines
The Los Burros Mining District and the Lost Town of Manchester
Organized 1876, transformed by Willey Cruikshank's Last Chance strike in 1887 — and gone by 1897, burned and grown over. The rise and fall of the coast's gold district, and the lost town of Manchester.