Midnight Jack, or The road-agent

"Linchpin lost!—wheel off!—broke down!" In a dark little valley, lying nearly midway between Fort Sully and Deadwood, and not far from the Cheyenne River, a gin trader, or smuggler, had met with an accident. He inaugurated a hunt for a piece of timber, which he hoped to transform into a drag to serve in lieu of the wheel. Armed with an axe, Timon was not long in finding the desired stick, and wh...