As I walked up the main street I noticed…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

As I walked up the main street I noticed the tent of the old German of whom we bought the outfit the day before was a perfect wreck, and also one or two other tents were more or less damaged. The poor old fellow and his wife were about half murdered and the $275 we had paid them, together with what they had on hand before, was all stolen, their little stock of goods was also about all gone or destroyed.