Chapter 21 No.21

Hurry, was the word! We wasted no time. Our party consisted of four persons-a blacksmith sixty years of age, two young lawyers, and myself. We bought a wagon and two miserable old horses. We put eighteen hundred pounds of provisions and mining tools in the wagon and drove out of Carson on a chilly December afternoon. The horses were so weak and old

            
            

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