I bet he spent some of that on a copy of Grant's Memoirs. I was reading last night about Mark Twain setting up a cross-country door-to-door salesmanship of the memoirs so as to help the Grant family out of their financial mess, and to give his widow something to live on. It appears every soldier in the Union army just about, bought the book. Got a good deal too -- wonderful book. (Sorry to thread creep).

Where is Boulder County? Wyoming?

yours, Peter T.