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Panther Attack Sparks Rescue on Kanawha River Voyage
In a Fraser's Magazine style tale, Blanche Bertrand travels with her Virginia family to the West. Eugene Fairfax, her secretary, defends them as a panther leaps aboard near Point Pleasant. A brutal skirmish leaves Eugene wounded but alive as boatmen fight off the predator and navigate fogbound rivers toward safety.
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