I've never given up. Everywhere I go, I ask about him. I look up his name on the tax rolls of each town I visit. I take out ads in the newspapers asking for word of his whereabouts. If he were dead, I think I would have heard of it by now.
Dead men are easier to find than living ones.
They have nothing left to hide. If Dalton is still alive, the announcement of compensation hearings for Yorker landowners may smoke him out. I need your help, Nate. Remember, I've never seen Will Dalton. A man changes a lot in that amount of time.