Around the Bend

I know it don't look like much, just a little beat-up cabin on the river, but let me tell you about this here river and what it means to me.

In time of drought, I've seen the river drop to just a few inches deep and barely a trickle wide. But it ain't never quit on me completely. I've always been able to get enough to fill my canteen and water my horse. Around here, dependable water is more precious than gold, no matter what John Marshall thought when he saw those sparkles upstream in the water at Sutter's Mill. So that makes me purty near rich, the way I see it.


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