In July of 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson was penniless, in broken health, and his writing career was in tatters. He was nursed back to health by his doctor, his nurse, and his future wife. His father then provided him money to help and he married. Still too weak to undertake the journey back to Scotland, he spent an unconventional honeymoon in a shanty in a derelict mining camp. This is his story of their time in the shanty. Other tales of his quest appear in "Essays of Travel" and "Across the Plains."