Excerpt from Leaves From a Diary, 1884: A Tramp Around the World
Leaving Chicago some three months previous for the far West, I had wandered aimlessly from camp to camp, through the mining district of Colo rado, in Search of a possible Eldorado, where I was to strike it rich and return home in glorious triumph, as, perhaps, I had presumptuously predicted. I forget the exact amount I (m; return with - but no matter.
Near Rico, in the San Juan Valley, I became acquainted with a party of miners, who were out prospecting; they were a jovial, reckless set of fel lows, and with that free hospitality never to be met with elsewhere, cordially invited me to join them. My valise I had left at Silverton, but in the moun tains one need not be particular, and my blue woolen shirt was eminently fitted for camping, especially where water was so plentiful.
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