I posted this elsewhere, but it works here as well.
The plot for Paint Your Wagon involves a gold rush. After the mines start to play out, some of the craftier gold miners find an alternative source of wealth, specifically:
Switch the human diggers for a group of urbanized dwarves, cut off from their normal society but retaining the same drives & skills, and you have a fairly unusual situation...
The plot for Paint Your Wagon involves a gold rush. After the mines start to play out, some of the craftier gold miners find an alternative source of wealth, specifically:
...Ben and a group of miners discover that gold dust is dropping through the floor boards of many of the saloons. They hatch a plan to tunnel under all the businesses to get at the gold ("The Best Things in Life are Dirty"). This brings the story to its climax when, during a bull and bear fight, the streets collapse into the tunnels dug by Ben and the others and the town is destroyed. A reprise of "The Ballad of No Name City" plays as the town is literally swallowed by the earth.
Switch the human diggers for a group of urbanized dwarves, cut off from their normal society but retaining the same drives & skills, and you have a fairly unusual situation...
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