Mountain Mystery of Dicksie and McCloud in Rail Wreck
In Smoky Creek a gang led by Murray Sinclair loot a wrecked train. McCloud, a road superintendent, confronts Sinclair’s men and discharges them, burning the wreckage. He chats with Dicksie Dunning of Crawling Stone ranch while offering water and fruit as she tends her horse.
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Murray Sinclair
Smoky Creek
McCloud
Sinclair
Dicksie Dunning
Mel Cloud
Lance
Dicksile
Dicksle Dunning
Dicksle
Dicksie
AL Lenat
Sim
Whispering Sun TM by Trankelspearman
Dicksie aids a wounded tramp named Wickwire after a wreck as McCloud helps Dicksie mount a horse on a sunlit trek. He orders hospital care for the cowboy, noting Wickwire might live if treated promptly, while the pair navigate rocky ground and a tense moment on the track.
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Jim
McCloud
Dicksie
Wickwire
Earnhardt's Hospital
Medicine Bend
McCloud the Mountain Railroad Man's unlikely rise
In a Western railroad saga, George McCloud rises from a desert survival to trainmaster on the Short Line. Bucks and Whispering Smith save him from mob violence, and Marion Sinclair, once his friend, helps him restart life in Medicine Bend. The Crawling Stone valley and the Dunnings frame his dream of a new grade through the Box.
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McCloud
New England
Morris Blood
Boston “Tech
John
George
John McCloud
California
Medicine Bend
Brother George
Blood
Bucks
Morris
Georges McCloud
Cold Springs
Number Eight
Bear Dance
Gordon Smith
Whispering Smith
President Bucks
Smith
Kennedy
George McCloud
Gordon
Flagman
Whitmyer
Farrell Kennedy
Taver
Farrell
Mountain Division
Rocky Mountains
Glover
Callahan
Boney Street
Marion Sinclair
Mir. McCloud
Marion
Murray Sinclair
Wisconsin
M. Sinclair
Sinclair
Fort
Providence
Dicksia Dunning
Crawling Stone
Elbow Mountains
Tig
Elbow
Mission Mountains
Richard Dunning
Dunning
Medicine’Bend
Long Range
Dunnings
Richard
Brode
Smoky, Creek
Lance Dunning
Lance
Murray’ Sinclaiy
Stone Ranch
Richard ‘Dunning
Kentucky
Betty
Ona
Fairfield
Crawling Stone River Valley Survey History
The Crawling Stone river valley serves as a historic divide between white overland routes and Sioux country. After the first railway line, engineers did not survey the Crawling Stone region until long after its construction, with three surveys conducted within a decade on the north side.
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Crawling Stone
Unsympathetic Brute Attacked by Miss Interest and Mrs Malaprop
In dialogue Mrs Malaprop and Miss Interest discuss insult and propriety. She recalls telling Lord de Style that her nan Ele had locomotive attackish and accuses him of whistling at croggings. The tone is sharp but nongraphic.
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Whispering Sun
Trankelspearman
Andre Bowles
Tralian
Smulth
Lquor
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