Trapped Detachment, Hampton, and the Kid in Plains Escape
A detachment of the Eighteenth Infantry from Fort Bethune is trapped by Indians in a narrow gorge. Gillis and his daughter are killed. Hampton and the girl escape after a three day siege. A Seventh Cavalry party rescues them, taking them to Gleneath. The Kid and Hampton drift through complex entanglements before choices about her future are made.
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Fighteenth Infantry
Fort Bethune
Hampton
Gillis
Seventh Cavalry
Brant
Hampton Aml
Gim
Gleneath
Daffy
Miss Gillis
Flo
Red Slavin
Final confrontation in the valley standoff erupts in violence
Naida awakens as a rider passes in haste and gunfire echoes from the night. Hampton travels toward the uplands, his determination clear as Slavin lies wounded or defeated. The scene ends with the heavy curtains dropping and a tense, open threat lingering over the fork of the trails.
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Slavin
Naida
Yellow House
Uplands
Hampton
Arrival of Miss Spencer in Glencaid frontier town
Phoebe Spencer, an eastern schoolteacher, arrives in Glencaid after a long voyage via Vermont and Boston. On the Bear Water stage she seats two frontier suitors, Jack Moffat and William McNeil, who vie for attention while she marvels at the west. At Herndon home Aunt Lydia welcomes Phoebe, and Moffat and McNeil depart with promises to visit.
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Phoebe Spencer
Glencaid
Far East
Vermont
Boston
Missouri
Jehu
Bear Water
Jack Moffat
Moffat
Willam McNeil
Sinsiniwa Creek
McNeil
Miss Spencer
Spencer
New Presbyterian Church
Mr. McNeil
Herndon
Mr. Moffat
Lydia
Lively
Becoming Acquainted in a Western House
Mrs Herndon introduces her niece Phoebe Spencer to Naida Gillis and the pair form an easy bond. Phoebe admires Naida, longs to organize their room and dresses, and soon joins supper with Herndon and Rev Wynkoop. Phoebe questions local church ties as Wynkoop shares prosaic views on frontier life.
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Miss Spencer
Naida Gillis
Lydia
Naida
Herndon
Howard Wynkoop
Spencer
Wynkoop
Tl Have Found It All So Strange, So Unique, Mr. Wynkoop
Mr. Moffat
Jack Moffat
Glencaid
Missouri
Busybodies in a Quarrel Over Medical Visits
The Catholic Standard and Times quotes Mrs Gabble and Mrs Naybor criticizing nosy neighbors who pry about a doctor's visit at their homes. They discuss curiosity about others and question how it would feel if the doctor visited their own houses.
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Mrs. Gabble
Mrs. Naybor
Catholic Standard and Times
How He Shot Them Not Altering Sportsman View
In Florida wintering, a sunburned New Yorker notes locals are lax on game laws. A German on a Jacksonville train shows a duck string. he bragges to shoot on the wing and in the feet and head, claiming the birds are in view.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Port Orange
Cuticura Soaps Cure Itching Sores Says Attica Mother
Mrs William Geeding of Attica Indiana reports that after months of itching sores her child healed after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment three times Each blister vanished leaving no scar and no lingering ill effects She endorses Cuticura remedies as the best she has tried and will recommend them to others Also mentions Pettit's Eye Salve for eye irritation and a George Eliot quote
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Cutiura
William Geeding
Washington St
Attica
Ind
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Placer
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Congressimam
Meekisom
Pesru
Meekison
Peruna
Tusella
David Meekison
Jacob L. Davis
Galena
Stone County
CN. Peterson
South Main St
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Perina
D. C. Prosser
Bravo
Allegan Co
Mich
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus, Ohio
Cuthura
Pettit
Edward Bros
Buffalo, N. Y
George Eliot
E. 8S. Wells
Jersey City, N. J
Orige
Patent Office
P. E. Melrose
Columbus
Ohio
G. W. Swigart
Dearborn St
Chicago
Famoung Greenriver
Utah
Homeseekers' Realty Company
Greenuriver
Anakesis Grves
Bample Freh
Anakesis
Tribune Bidg
New York
Watson E. Coleman
Pater
Eney
Washington, D.C
Yormslow
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