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provisions from companions at Tuscarora Lake; driven from the settlement; went to live with Bennings; went to Fort Leavenworth and took service with train bound for Utah, 74; gambling exploit of at Fort Bridger told of by B. M. Peck; known then as Charley Hart, 75; particulars of his trip unknown; was at South Pass, September 3, 1858; arrived in Utah about October 1, 1858; lost his luck and money; "busted" when he got to Utah, 76; letter to mother; thought would go to Colville gold mines; surprised at progress of Mormons, 77; weighed 171 pounds, 78; was deceiving his mother; sick with mountain fever; said he would soon go to work for quartermaster; second letter from Salt Lake, 79; would not go home without money; cooked for a mess of twenty-five men; letter from Camp Floyd to mother, 80; erratic move of; rumors of murder; foundation of lie he told the Missourians; letter to mother from LawTence; dug gold at Pike's Peak; the "diggings" a humbug; hard times of described, 81; companion of shot by Indians; twelve companions of died in Bocky Mountains, 82; again rumors of murder; to go to Osawatomie; a vagabond, 83; worked for a Mr. Chiles of Independence, Mo., on trip to Utah, 84; called "Bed Shirt" on trip by companions, 85; taught one term of school in Kansas; location of school-house; boarded with Bennings before school began; description

of school-house; errors regarding his teaching, 86; school in Judge Boberts district; letter of Boberts; was in error as to date of school; correct date; those who attended the school, 87; described by William Stockwell and Boxy Troxel Boberts; peculiar eyes; neat in dress; talked Free-State; how school-house was furnished; boarded with Bennings; Beeson's statement; lied to Beeson; played "detective," 88; letter to mother; hardships in Bocky Mountains, 89; first symptoms of turning border-ruffian; denounced John Brown; denounced people of Kansas, 90; a traitor to friends; what he said his trip taught him, 91; never saw John Brown nor John Brown's men; not in Kansas when Brown was, 92; a petty thief at Tuscarora Lake then, 93; letter to mother; trip to Utah described; longed for Canal Dover; a beautiful letter, 94; taught by experience; changed in appearance, 95; letter to'sister Mary, 96; his life and garb described, 97; uncertainty of movements of; James Hanway on; did not make second trip to Pike's Peak, 99; deceived mother; led two lives; letter to mother; crisis in life of, 100; life of in the West; longed for old home, 101; determined to go to Lawrence, 102; went to Lawrence; when seen there by H. S. Clarke; got back to Lawrence from Pike's Peak in June, 1859; did not write mother till last of July; Scott says experiences on return were foundation of lie he told the