We were sitting one night at a freighter’s…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

We were sitting one night at a freighter’s campfire, around which were drawn a score or more of the freighters, who, with their outfits, were in camp for the night. Stories of old times, when the Indians were bad, and of the bravery of the white pioneer, had gone around the circle until it came to old man Wilson’s turn, who said: