. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. 172 The White Indian Boy stage with the driver dead in the boot and the stage shotfull of holes. At one time a driver who had been woundedby outlaws was loaded into my stage. We were trying toget him through to Salt Lake, but the poor fellow diedwhile he was with me. No other passenger was along atthe time. I couldnt help the sufferer much. It was aterrible experience, I tell you, for him and me too, thatlong night on the lonely Nevada desert. Afterwards I was changed to another division, drivingin Nevada from Austin to Sand
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. 172 The White Indian Boy stage with the driver dead in the boot and the stage shotfull of holes. At one time a driver who had been woundedby outlaws was loaded into my stage. We were trying toget him through to Salt Lake, but the poor fellow diedwhile he was with me. No other passenger was along atthe time. I couldnt help the sufferer much. It was aterrible experience, I tell you, for him and me too, thatlong night on the lonely Nevada desert. Afterwards I was changed to another division, drivingin Nevada from Austin to Sand Wells. Jim CHft wasdivision agent here. It was a heavy road, — full of sand;but it wasnt so haid and heavy as another stretch thatBen Halliday, our big chief, gave me later. When heheard I was careful with the horses, that I didnt usethem up as did some of the drivers they brought in fromthe East, who didnt know mountain life, he set me todriving from the Sink of Carson to Fort Churchill. Idrove there that summer and winter and the next spring. Antelope on the desert. Pictures of this kind were often seen by PonyExpress riders. The Overland Stage 173
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