Letter XII.
Deer [...]Valley[...] — Lynch Law — Vigilance Committees — The Silver
Spruce — Taste and Abstinence — The Whisky Fiend — Smartness — Turkey Creek Canyon — The Indian Problem — Public
Rascality — Friendly Meetings — The Way to the Golden City —
A rising Settlement — Clear Creek Canyon — Staging — Swearing
— A Mountain Town
written by Isabella Lucy Bird, 1831-1904; in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882), 213-228