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Prayers & Poisoned Water. Forty-Niners (first published in 1931) is the work of the late Professor Archer Hulbert of Colorado College, who gathered the materials for it while mapping the great trails across continental U.S. Hulbert imagined a "typical" wagon train-16 wagons, with four mules to each wagon and three spares, 125 Ibs. of flour for each man, as well as 50 Ibs. of ham, 50 Ibs. of bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road...
...like stage Indians, no longer menacing, but certainly not safe. At the forks in the road there were travelers with word of how much better some other route was or could be, and at the river crossings there always seemed to be someone to overcharge them for ferrying each wagon and each mule...
...cent "hot tip" card. After they pore over these for half an hour, they stick a pin into their programs and rush down to the window to slap two bucks on a nag that's in the race racket because it's too old to pull a milk wagon...
...Scotches before dinner), Marquand is by no means contemptuous of money and is mightily pleased that he has made the financial grade. But like Charley Gray, he knows that something is missing. He wishes there were something more at the finish than an annuity and a new station wagon. And he is no more sure than Charley Gray what that something is. Says Marquand: "I've been so warped and conditioned by life that I haven't found anything that will satisfy...
...clear and true, hitting the notes hard and clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there's mah man") Oliver came around to listen...