We are introduced to a rather notorious Division Agent, Slade. His adventures related here were perhaps too violent for some of the attending audience at this reading. Several vanished before it was through.
Reading Date
April 5, 2011
SL Venue
Fate Gardens
Twain Chapter Comments
Sam met Slade at Horseshoe Creek Station...
...So it says in http://www.truewestmagazine.com The original ink to this item is broken.
Not Horseshoe Creek but Rocky Ridge
According to an Supplement to the on-line edition of Roughing It at the Mark Twain project, Sam Clemens and Orion had breakfast with Slade at the Rocky Ridge Station, just east of South Pass. Apparently they did not know anything about him at that time. Consequently, Twain's colorful narrative about the last cup of coffee is fiction.