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The Saga of Henry Plummer Book 1 by Sven Skaar (PH 3-1) (1959) (97 pages)
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Page: of 97
ee 5 Met During War
. yoreed by poverty, Thomas} As eueivate in, the Mexican
‘indle a job as manager }
Laan ae Water & Min-} War attached to the’ garni: ont or :
i ad lare fit. in which Thomas Hodges ing Company which owned large ane mie, ees
holdings of canals and Ce ster had known, and admired the
in El Dorado county. tall, fearless ‘Tennessean. When:
On a field a x the Taian some years later he got the oppor‘vide. he died amon a ‘i 7 “
town SC eabae 1988. He wast, tunity to join the ae zt
gers In i of age The Nevada . Bell gang in Ee Mae a orow ars . : < ts :
sixly ar Transcript reported ‘on thern Mines Region, he did so
City Dany It:came about in this way.
September 20: SeRS : oe: :
Se sas Findley’ died of acute) Jim was mining near Timbuc+. at Georgetown.. le too, Yuba county, during the hot,
Be) be Pes San Fran-. ! dry summer of '55, or pretending
ie where the widow and six. ! ‘to do 80, for he ‘spent most of
cog yhildren. reside’ Mrs. his time in the coolness of the:
es site P — yyhenia hy obs ‘ camp's brick saloon, playing pokree ei ~eror just watching the sun wallop
eae es ain ; the dust into’a shimmering blane De Se hath . ket of heat above Main street.
be ee Or he would wait hours for some
= ' barefobted ‘kid to.step acciden-.
; tally on thesun-heated iroli “doors
Bell and Webster of ‘the hotel cellar across the
Not Romantic: street. He would “howl with joy
aa ? / as the stung kid would’ jump in
Vicious Killers the air, .yelling with pain and
wounded. dignity.
James Skinner Webster, or Jim Timbuctoo was named for the
Webster the Timbuctoo terror, is discoverer of gold in’ the ravine,
not entitled to the romantic charTimbuctoo Brown, a runaway
acterization sémetimes given him ty oe ~ Colonel a
ti ape ae te : slave’ colony~ near’ Rough an
by historians; neither is the Robin Ready. ° ;
Hood personality often accredited a
to his boss, Tom Bell, deserved. Fodhih eee
They. were both killers and both Theeriehy camp was the foothill;
neyinesseans, “iL: Whetes thie ‘re: portal into the northern mount-'
1 ain mines. Sam Langton of Down-!
semblance ends. Foas i ieville -had opened a office for!
Tom Bell, or as his real name, his Pioneer Express company on:
Thomas J. Hodges, M.D., was} Main street and almost adjoining
the only son of an aristocratic it, Wells Fargo -moved in to capsouthern family, educated as a ture the business left when the
physician and surgeon, becoming Adams Express folded early that
a good one also, That this proyear. Yes Timbuctoo was movin
mising man should turn his back ahead at a fast strike. ea
to his profession and deliberately Webster dawdled awa i te ae
take to banditry in California at in the cool Saloon ae statute
the age of thirty, does not earn loudly of the slim shsitee a idk
for him the remotest kinship veteran had in this country f
with Robin Hood.
oa
whose freedom i
Jim Webster had no education. blood. ee Hed SoU
We was a vulgar, sadistic ruffian Today, standing b 5 ! » ste efore th‘he ve MRS stare ty shell of the Wells Fargo build.
hrough life had. he not sucing, the only o ini it,
cilmbed to his hot’ temper during is difficult to Realitn. dhe tet
a few seconds of a blistering that. on ! at-once stood E i
summer day of the year 1855. ee