This work claims that "The strongest man had but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one eye" after discussing a character with "the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet".  That character, Oakhurst the gambler, would later give the protagonist of this work a handkerchief as a gift.  That protagonist dies in the same flood that kills Stumpy and Kentuck, who earlier in this work had cal
This work claims that "The strongest man had but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one eye" after discussing a character with "the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet".  That character, Oakhurst the gambler, would later give the protagonist of this work a handkerchief as a gift.  That protagonist dies in the same flood that kills Stumpy and Kentuck, who earlier in this work had called the protagonist, "the damned little cuss" before he was named "Thomas" by Oakhurst.  For 10 points—name this work about a small mining town where Cherokee Sal gives birth to the title infant, a story by Bret Harte.
This work claims that "The strongest man had but three fingers on his right hand; the best shot had but one eye" after discussing a character with "the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet".  
“The {Luck} of {Roaring Camp}”