Story Told Around Camp Fire at Pike's Peak Miners
A four man mining party at Pike's Peak draw lots to tell a tale. Joe Dixon draws the short strip and narrates a frontier tale of four travelers crossing the Smoky Hill route facing famine and death. Two brothers endure despair until rescue arrives and a brother sacrifices for the other.
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Pike's Peak
Phil Sonics
Harry Mason
Joe
Phil
Joe Dixon
Harry
Darry
Laws
Plaine River
Smoky Hill
Niecbt
Great American Desert
Bend
Wanted an Angel jailing to Hawkeye tale
A long read describes Peyton Thomson a Virginia hired worker with many wives and a quizzing wife at a bar of judgment. He evasively answers the angel will compel him to choose one wife in heaven then rejects earthly wives. A closing note mentions coffee grounds deterring ants by flower beds.
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Tos Hawkeye
Darkey
Peyton
Virginia
Utah
Swain
Peyton Thomson
de Bar
de Grim ’Stroyin
Caroline Smith
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