MDMD(8) Opening Comments - Diggers

[Doug Millison]

At 10:03 AM 9/19/97, Robert Norton wrote:
>BTW, I think that the Digger references here are actually to the original
>Diggers, a group of anarchistic agrarian reformers several hundred years
>back. THEY came down very hard on the Diggers and pretty much obliterated
>them from the face of the earth.
>

There are also the Digger Indians (native Americans) who lived in North
America. Mark Twain talks about them in Roughing It, and Richard Brautigan
talked about them in one of his novels, A Confederate General at Big Sur,
perhaps.

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