overick's

Updated: May 6, 2025

"Now, the way I met up with this skunkin' little dewdrop was this-like It was at Yuma, at a time when I was a kid of about nineteen. It was a Sunday mornin'; Peg-leg was in town. He was asleep on a lounge in the back room o' Bud Overick's Grand Transcontinental Hotel. Yuma was a great consumptive place at that time. They used to come in on every train; yes, and go out, too by freight.

Frank Norris - A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West