The Shriley Letters

This is how she began her 19th letter, From our Log Cabin, Indian Bar, August 4:
"We have lived through so much of excitement for the last three weeks, dear Molly, that I almost shrink from relating the gloomy events which have marked their flight. But if I leave out the darker shades of our mountain life, the picture will be very incomplete. In the short space of twenty-four days, we have had murders, fearful accidents, bloody deaths, a mob, whippings, a hanging, an attempt at suicide, and a fatal duel."


The letter goes on to elaborate on these rude happenings.
Lawrence Clark Powell; California Classics