From there, they rode a stagecoach north to mining country.This morning, though, Dame Shirley and Fayette were rested and ready to continue their travels.Dame Shirley and Fayette knew that Rich Bar had a population of several thousand miners.Friends in San Francisco had warned Dame Shirley not to go to the mines.Another had said that Dame Shirley was crazy to think of living in a mining camp made up almost entirely of men.The stage's wooden wheels had bounced and jumped over a road that was more trail than highway.