Chapter 14 THE REDWOODS AND THE SAW-MILL COUNTRY OF MENDOCINO.

Some years ago, before there was a wagon-road between Cloverdale and Mendocino City, or Big River, as it is more commonly called up here on the northern coast, the mail was carried on horse-or, more usually, on mule-back; and the mail-rider was caught, on one stormy and dark night, upon the road, and found himself unable to go farther. In this dile