Stage Driver Sparks Tales On Route Twilight
A traveler recounts a bumpy three hour stage ride with two drivers. The first was taciturn and dull, the second lively and talkative, with Tennessee swagger and sharp jests about widows and old maids. A San Francisco widow listens as the pair swap stories and banter amid a steep downhill descent.
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Heath
Murphy’s
Murphy's
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Stage River
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Widders
Jimming Crickets
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Nick
Brave Stage Driver Tennessee Emerges in Amral's
A stagecoach trip over a dangerous mountain grade unfolds as Tennessee, the driver, regales passengers with wild tales of holdups and river of bullets. The group endures a terrifying descent, praising his nerve, while a schoolmistress later reveals the chest of stories was fiction and the truth: the shotgun messenger Fred Green drove the party.
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Karr on sailors and a boastful dinner tale
The piece recounts Alphonso Karr the French novelist who enjoyed close friendships with sailors and mocked the middle class. A dinner anecdote shows Karr denying being seen with “all sorts of people” by claiming pilots were friends, while a later dog story and notes on songs and trivia fill the column.
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