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Duel at Forty Mile Ends With a Staged Rope Chace
Bettles and Lon McFane threaten a duel after a heated river ice debate. Malemute Kid arranges a public mock duel with a rope and a ten minute deadline, promising no killer blow if the rules hold, and the crowd watches as a dog attack interrupts the tension.
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Lon
Mounted Police
Big Jim Belden
Scruff Mackenzie
Father Roudeau
Bettles
McFane
Malemute
Scruff
Yellow Fang
Mackenzie
Zarinska
Sitka Charley
Lon McFane
Malemute Kid
Manila
David
Father Roubeau
Forty Mile
Yukon
Len
Pilate
Sphinx
Betties
Wes