This book relates the story of a group of surveyors who become trapped in a room with a dozen tarantulas. Some of its characters accept their deaths when they get lost in a snowstorm only to wake up to discover they were fifteen paces from an inn. In this book, a lawyer is tricked into thinking his client's ranch has been buried by a landslide that deposited a neighbor's ranch above it. Its characters include Jim Blaine, who jumps from subject to subject instead of telli
This book relates the story of a group of surveyors who become trapped in a room with a dozen tarantulas. Some of its characters accept their deaths when they get lost in a snowstorm only to wake up to discover they were fifteen paces from an inn. In this book, a lawyer is tricked into thinking his client's ranch has been buried by a landslide that deposited a neighbor's ranch above it. Its characters include Jim Blaine, who jumps from subject to subject instead of telling the story of his grandfather's ram whenever he gets drunk. In this book, Scotty Briggs uses unintelligible slang to try to get a minister to officiate (*) Buck Fanshaw's funeral. It was inspired by a trip its author took to meet his brother Orion in Carson City. For 10 points, name this embellished semi-autobiographical account of Mark Twain's travels in the West.
This book relates the story of a group of surveyors who become trapped in a room with a dozen tarantulas.