Redwood Camp tolerated him as a nameless, penniless nobody, ignored even by the census taker, until the great flood of 1856 carried him off on a plank. Downriver he lands among a tribe of Indians, and Harte follows, with characteristic irony, what such a man becomes when no one around him knows what he was.
A short, wry story from Harte’s California, sharp about frontier dealings between settlers and Indians. Download the free EPUB.