half past two
She began to smell unpleasantly , once or twice she coughed slightly , but there was no abatement of her strength or speed . By two o'clock he had passed Red Mountain and begun the descent to the plain . Ten minutes later the driver of the fast Pioneer coach was overtaken and passed by a `` man on a Pinto hoss , '' -- an event sufficiently notable for remark . At half past two Dick rose in his stirrups with a great shout . Stars were glittering through the rifted clouds , and beyond him , out of the plain , rose two spires , a flagstaff , and a straggling line of black objects . Dick jingled his spurs and swung his riata , Jovita bounded forward , and in another moment they swept into Tuttleville and drew up before the wooden piazza of `` The Hotel of All Nations . '' What transpired that night at Tuttleville is not strictly a part of this record .