Orion goes to Meadow Lake, Summit City in the Excelsior District high in the Sierra mountains for the whole summer and Mollie travels by herself touring California or home to Iowa, whichever she chooses. MT&OC pg 110 clearly their relationship is extremely strained. in 1862 he wouldn’t hear of her coming by coach across the […]
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Orion chills alone
He works as a miner, hangs a lazy law shingle, and writes letters to Midwest Newspapers to make money MT&OC pg 110
Orion leaves
After losing the election for secretary of state, and then being given a job as a state assemblyman – whose small pay and small law practice made him too poor to continue