What's Left of Promise

What's Left of Promise What's left isn't much, just a cemetery five miles or so beyond Maxville on the map. And Maxville, a ghost town I'm never able to findI 've tried every time I've been up here— you have to turn off the road somewhere into the timber—I'm told there are buildings still standing, log walls chinked for winter as though people were still living there, but I've always turned too soon or too late, so I can't say for sure what's left ofMaxville. But what's left of Promise is a cemetery and a small ranch at the end of the road, not prosperous, but lovely come summer, and well kept. Just that, and the stones: Carper, Sannar, Snuffer, Doud, laid out regular as a history of the pioneer families, like the blown pages of some school boy's lost book. John Quinn Boulder City, Nevada 60 ...