Identifier: robertlouissteven00crus (find matches)
Title: Robert Louis Stevenson
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Cruse, Amy, 1870-1951
Subjects: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Publisher: London : George G. Harrap
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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the seekers pursued their way about afurlong along a road running through a forest andround the side of the hill, to a place where itsuddenly widened and ended abruptly in a greatcanyon. The canyon was walled across by ac dump of rolling stones, from twenty to thirtyfeet high. Up this they mounted by ladders, thenwalked over a mass of loose stones, until theystruck a triangular platform filling up the wholeglen. Walls of bare red rock rose shutting it in onthree sides. A line of rails, with trucks and otherminers stock, in front, and two shafts that hadbeen sunk farther back showed that this had beenthe scene of the Silverado mining operations. Butthe object upon which the eyes of Stevenson andhis wife fastened with the greatest eagerness was asmall, brown, wooden house built upon one sideof the platform, close up to the red wall of rock.It contained three rooms, each of which was enteredfrom a different side and a different level. Thewindow-frames had all been taken away, and sand 84
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R. L. S. AT SILVERADO From The Silverado SquattersBy permission of 3Iess?*s Chatto & Windus Robert Louis Stevenson had drifted in, blocking up the entrance ; and inthis soil chance seeds had produced a flourishingcrop of vegetation. The upper room, which, whilethe mine was working, had provided sleepingaccommodation for thirty miners, was fitted with atriple tier of beds, arranged like the berths in a ship.The Stevensons lost no time in making up theirminds. This, they decided, should be their homefor the summer. With some help from Rufe Hansonand his family the house was cleared and madehabitable ; some furniture and a stove were broughtup from Calistoga, and the Silverado Squatters began their experiment. Stevenson and his wifeshared the household duties between them. Eachmorning he rose early from his shelf-like bed andfilled the kettle at a pool of clear water that laybehind one of the shafts ; then lit a fire in the stoveand prepared breakfast. After breakfast it wasMrs Steve

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