- Joaquin Miller.
Contents
One Sunday in Stinson's Bar
The Tom Bell Stronghold
The Hanging of Charlie Price
Rattlesnake Dick
Indian Vengeance
Grizzly Bob of Snake Gulch
Curley Coppers the Jack
The Race of the Shoestring Gamblers
The Dragon and the Tomahawk
The Barstow Lynching
Copyright, 1922
By Vivia Hemphill
One Sunday in Stinson's Bar
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"On that broad stage of empire won,
Whose footlights were the setting sun;
Whose flats a distant background rose
In trackless peaks of endless snows;
Here genius bows, and talent waits
To copy that but One creates."
- Bret Harte.
Now-a-days when you want to go from San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada
country you step into your perfectly good Packard (or whatever it is -
all the way down to a motorcycle side car), and you ferry across the bay
and the straits, and if the motor-cop isn't around, you come shooting up
the highway forty miles an hour, and at the end of a glorious five-hour
run you are there.
In the early fifties - when there was less to see, too - you took more
time to it.
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