Who said this, and where did he conduct this activity?

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

"The man from whom I rented a stable had filed on a timbered hillside a few miles from town where he had been cutting and piling wood during the fall, expecting to sell it when winter set in. But, like the rest of the camp, he had forgotten all about transportation. I had a hunch that a fuel shortage was coming, so I tied up that wood supply with a contract to pay the owner two dollars a cord, at his property. As it was mostly deadfall, he made a fine profit. I rigged a wagon box for use on wheels or runners that would carry two cords to the load, and hired a man to help me load and throw off at two dollars a trip. Buyers did their own piling. I could haul four loads a day, sometimes five, which meant eight or ten cords daily. I sold it in ____?____ at twelve dollars a cord, cash in hand before unloading. Every haul was contracted for in advance, and many a time I have driven down the main street of the camp with men running alongside bidding twenty, thirty and even fifty dollars a cord for what I was obligated to sell at my regular price to someone to whom I had promised delivery. For special night hauls I charged stiff premiums. Once a man routed me out of my blankets for wood to keep a big poker game going until morning. He paid one hundred dollars a cord and ten dollars for my helper – the thermometer was at forty below zero that night and there was a forty-mile northwest wind howling.

"I didn't gamble much that winter. I delivered wood seven days a week and when night came I wanted to sleep. But I was young and tough, so were my horses, and we came through to spring in fine shape physically, with a profit of about five thousand dollars."

[Texas Lawdog]

Wyatt Earp     St. Louis ,MO

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Wyatt Earp     St. Louis ,MO

You got half of it, TLD.  Right guy, but wrong town. 

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

Well,




How about Dodge City?

BB

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Well, sorry.  Try a little farther north.

[Cheyenne]

How 'bout up Deadwood way.

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

How 'bout up Deadwood way.

Figgered the "Deadwood Kid" would come thru for me.  Guess lots of folks don't realize Wyatt (the "Firewood Kid") spent time there.