. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. led, but ifyou want to go to work in the stable I will give you threedollars a day. I agreed and began to work. Tim Smith The Overland Stage 175 was a one-£irmed man, and he had fourteen hostlers and aclerk that worked in the stable. The office was in onecorner of the stable and a young man by the name ofBilly Green was the clerk. He had charge of the men andwas very kind and good to me. I was afraid to go out at night, so I stayed in the stableand helped Billy. It was a very large stable, holding overone hundred horses, and
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. led, but ifyou want to go to work in the stable I will give you threedollars a day. I agreed and began to work. Tim Smith The Overland Stage 175 was a one-£irmed man, and he had fourteen hostlers and aclerk that worked in the stable. The office was in onecorner of the stable and a young man by the name ofBilly Green was the clerk. He had charge of the men andwas very kind and good to me. I was afraid to go out at night, so I stayed in the stableand helped Billy. It was a very large stable, holding overone hundred horses, and there was a good deal of work todo after dark. At that time Virginia City was booming. Two or threemen were killed every day. I had not driven here verylong before I saw a man hanged at what they called theGolden Gate. I dont remember what he had done, butI saw him hanged, anyway. Those were rough, wild days, and this was one of theroughest spots in the savage West. I was glad enoughto leave it. After a few months of staging here, I quitthe job and returned Spring at Rockwells stage station, Salt Lake County, Utah. f •-;i ^-t >^5i
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