Mark Twain and friends have recently changed from a stagecoach to a "mud wagon" in their journey from St. Louis to Nevada. They are traveling with the mail and have to cross the South Platte River, which apparently is rather quicksandy even when there is a lot of water in the river. (I wouldn't know; I've never seen it in person.) Anyway, Twain and friends ended up getting stuck on the way across:
"But the mails had to go, and we made the attempt. Once or twice in midstream the wheels sunk into the unyielding sands so threateningly that we half believed we had dreaded and avoided the sea all our lives to be shipwrecked in a mud wagon in the middle of a desert at last."
Haha! Happy Tuesday!
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