Two week long stagecoach journey across the great plains, rocky mountains, visiting salt lake city – “Roughing It” – Orion had no money to get to Carson City. Sam had saved $1,200 from piloting the Riverboat
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Civil War Begins
Confederates attack a fort in South Carolina, begin to win the war
Orion goes to VC to lecture Sam
Orion is concerned about Sam’s life of dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure; intemperance. dissipation