The Golden Butterfly

· 1882

EDITOR OF "THE WORLD," IN WHICH PAPER "THE GOLDEN BUTTERFLY" WAS FIRST PUBLISHED, The Golden Butterfly, which gives a name to this novel, was seen by an English traveller, two years ago, preserved as a curiosity in a mining city near Sacramento, where it probably still remains. This curious freak of Nature is not therefore an invention of our own. To the same traveller--Mr. Edgar Besant--we are indebted for the description on which is based our account of Empire City.…

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