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The Christmas Foundling mines Bret Harte for holiday inspiration

by Dan Jakes

The unconventional family structures of 19th-century mining camps widen the lens for LGBTQ history. Neither Tom Selleck nor Steve Guttenberg nor Ted Danson have anything on this crew of 19th-century Sierra gold miners, who are unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood after a vagabond dies in their cabin shortly after giving birth. Isolated from society and unable to track down the boy's next o…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 6:00pm on December 10, 2019