Tales of Trail and Town

Tales of Trail and Town

Tales of Trail and Town It must be admitted that the civilizing processes of Rough and Ready...
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Author: Harte, Bret,1836-1902
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Tales of Trail and Town

Tales of Trail and Town

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Tales of Trail and Town

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Author: Harte, Bret,1836-1902
Format: eBook
Language: English

Tales of Trail and Town

It must be admitted that the civilizing processes of Rough and Ready were not marked by any of the ameliorating conditions of other improved camps. After the discovery of the famous Eureka lead, there was the usual influx of gamblers and saloon-keepers; but that was accepted as a matter of course. But it was thought hard that, after a church was built and a new school erected, it should suddenly be found necessary to have doors that locked, instead of standing shamelessly open to the criticism and temptation of wayfarers, or that portable property could no longer be left out at night in the old fond reliance on universal brotherhood. The habit of borrowing was stopped with the introduction of more money into the camp, and the establishment of rates of interest; the poorer people either took what they wanted, or as indiscreetly bought on credit. There were better clothes to be seen in its one long straggling street, but those who wore them generally lacked the grim virtue of the old pioneers, and the fairer faces that were to be seen were generally rouged. There was a year or two of this kind of mutation, in which the youthful barbarism of Rough and Ready might have been said to struggle with adult civilized wickedness, and then the name itself disappeared. By an Act of the Legislature the growing town was called Atherly, after the owner of the Eureka mine,Peter Atherly,who had given largess to the town in its Waterworks and a Gin Mill, as the new Atherly Hotel and its gilded bar-rooms were now called. Even at the last moment, however, the new title of Atherly hung in the balance. The romantic daughter of the pastor had said that Mr. Atherly should be called Atherly of Atherly, an aristocratic title so strongly suggestive of an innovation upon democratic principles that it was not until it was discreetly suggested that everybody was still free to call him Atherly, late of Rough and Ready, that opposition ceased. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 2550
Author: Harte, Bret
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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