The changes
to the camp emanated from Luck's arrival there. First, the town decided to spruce up the cabin
where Luck lived: "It was kept scrupulously clean and whitewashed. Then it was boarded,
clothed, and papered." When one place starts to look nicer, the surrounding places look
worse, so people will naturally start to spruce up their places. As such, Tuttle's grocery
installed some new carpet and mirrors.
The next change was in the personal
hygiene of the campers. Because Roaring Camp was a mining camp and its inhabitants mostly men,
personal hygiene was not...
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