The Dead Woman’s Photograph

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌⁠Virgil Hoyt is a photographer’s assistant up at St. Paul, and a man of a good deal of taste. He has been in search of the picturesque all over the West, and hundreds of miles to the north in Canada, and can speak three or four Indian dialects, and put a canoe through the rapids. That is to say, he is a man of an adventurous sort and no dreamer. He can fight well and shoot well and swim well enough