Category Archives: Pres Longley

Poet Pres Longley had an eye for a pretty girl. Here’s a poem he wrote about an encounter on L Street in Sacramento, published in the Sacramento Daily Bee on January 7, 1873. THE GIRL I SAW ON L STREETI … Continue reading →

April is poetry month, so who better to give us a poem than our own Bard of Butte and Poet of Helltown, Pres Longley. Here is one that was published in the Oroville Mercury on September 17, 1875. “SHE RUNS … Continue reading →

Our very own Bard of Butte, poet Pres Longley, penned this valentine one hundred and sixty years ago. It appeared in the Weekly Butte Record on February 28, 1863, and undoubtedly touched many a lonely miner’s heart. Lines to Etna … Continue reading →

Pres Longley, the “Bard of Butte,” wrote many columns and poems for the newspapers. This column appeared in the Weekly Butte Record on December 26th, 1868. It’s lengthy, so I am just going to give you the beginning, and the … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, when the rules of courtship were strict, and a woman could only wait for a man to get a clue and propose marriage, tradition had it that during a leap year a woman could propose to … Continue reading →

You may wrangle and rave of your Marysville girls, Of the girls of the Capital City, Of the ‘Frisco girls, with their fads and their curls, But the Butte Creek girls are most pretty. Their smiles are far dearer to … Continue reading →