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Usage examples of "hangtown".
They asked for a week in which to decide and appointed Jarcke, who was the mayoress of Hangtown, to guide Meric to Griaule.
He had an unshakable faith in the transforming power of their affections, and one morning as they dressed, preparing to return to Hangtown, he asked her to leave with him.
Jarcke helped him to his feet, and they climbed up to Hangtown, to bitter realizations and regrets, leaving Pardiel to the birds or the weather or worse.
He half turned to the stair, thinking he would go back to Hangtown and accept the hurly-burly.
Flakes shifting over the surface, skizzers, peculiar insects fuming in the thickets, the glum populace of Hangtown, waterfalls.
At length Jarcke helped him to his feet, and they climbed up to Hangtown, to bitter realizations and regrets, leaving Pardiel to the birds or the weather or worse.
He half-turned to the stair, thinking he would go back to Hangtown and accept the burly-burly.
According to Morgan, Hangtown was approximately two hundred miles west of Fort Worth, not far from the Salt Fork River.
It was midafternoon three days later when they finally rode into Hangtown and Hanna sat on the seat staring at everything, her head shaking slightly in disbelief.
One building that had a sign over it stating the Hangtown Herald stuck out from most of the others because it was brand new and freshly painted, as was one other building a few doors away.
The streets of Hangtown were pretty well deserted when Paco and Hanna rode in.
Brady and Blake Morgan had arrived in Hangtown there had been piano music coming from one of the saloons, but this afternoon all was quiet.
It was close to eleven in the morning when he finally rode into Hangtown and dismounted in front of the Sundown Saloon.
With a hundred and twenty five thousand she could get away from Hangtown for sure.
Sacramento City was then the final rendezvous of all those bound for the mines, some forty miles in the wilderness of mountains to the east, Thure and Bud, naturally, had headed straight for this town, intending, when there, to find someone going to Hangtown, with whom they might journey to this mining camp, where they hoped to find their fathers and their friends.