As in “Joshing” humorous stories about an Old horse, Chief Justice George Turner’s oratory, burlesque Fourth of July. And how much Dan DeQuille is a liar.
Characters
Sam fails at mining
With Horatio “Raish” Phillips he tries a different claim in Aurora – bare of everything but whisky, cigars, tobacco and some clothing. Living off beef and coffee no flour cornmeal beans. too weak to work. His letters to Orion, Mom, and Pam he glibly talks about calims on ledges called Antelope, Yankee, Flyaway, Fresno
Orion corresponds with William H Clagett
Probably about Sam and that Nye was spending the whole winter and spring in San Francisco.