hand-marks

Updated: June 23, 2025

"This here cave," he observed, "used to be occupied by the cliff-dwellers them's their hand-marks, up on the wall; and then I reckon the Apaches moved in, and after them the soldiers; but when the Lost Burro began turning out the ore, I'll bet it was crowded like a bar-room.

Dane Coolidge - Silver and Gold: A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp