The Lost Cabin Mine

“I don’t have to!” shrieks the grey parrot, answering its master—and soon the landlord is telling a young stranger about the Lost Cabin Mine, just as a striking figure steps onto the verandah.

Baker City, June 1900: out of work and short of money, the narrator watches the heat shimmer over the mining town from the Laughlin Hotel. Its quick-witted landlord advises him how to bluff his way into a job, then offers a tale of the Lost Cabin—a mine whose true story, the narrator says, no man knows, because “dead men tell no tales.” But the story pauses when a sun-browned man in a cream kerchief appears. The landlord knows him as the Apache Kid, and says he is part of the mystery. What does the Kid have to do with the mine—and what happened that night?

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