On the way home he spends a disappointing day in Black Hawk, where very few of the people from his youth remain.

"You recall the summer in Lost Hawk, near the lake?"

He was the school principal in Black Hawk in 1888 and 1889.

But the daily yield here, $72 a machine, is almost half the yield in Black Hawk.

There be only two conditions what exists in this world, Hawk, strength and weakness.

'Best thing we can do is believe in Hawk - and hope,' I says.

New technology did come, with the first smelter being set up in Black Hawk in 1865.

The train arrived in Black Hawk on December 15, 1873.

They had us in two rooms, all but you and Hawk.

After returning, he took up a permanent residence in Black Hawk, Colorado.