In Bret Harte's 'A Drift from Redwood Camp', Elijah Martin is known as a worthless and cowardly man who is tolerated in Redwood Camp as a simple "super." When a terrible flood sweeps through the camp, Martin finds himself adrift and lands in an unknown wilderness, where his survival instinct kicks in. Martin's fate is uncertain, and the story leaves the reader in suspense as to what will happen to him.