Free Traders and Pellys Mine Mystery Aboard
Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman Lee Anderson is sent to arrest Pelly for murder and to guard Jim Rathway the head of the Free Traders. In a web of pursuit a missing girl Joyce Pelly, Estelle and Rathway collide with Anderson in a gorge and mine tunnel. After injuries, a Moravian mission, and restored memory, love rekindles between Anderson and Joyce.
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Lee Anderson
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Stony Range
Pelly
Jim Rathway
Little Falls
Pierre
Shorty
Anderson
Siston Lake
Rathway
Estelle
Joyce
Joyce and Lee face the past as Pelly's mine is found
Lee searches the chasm and cave for clues to Pelly and Joyce's father while Joyce confronts memory gaps. He discovers Pelly’s gold mine remains and a buried cross for Helene Pelly, then grapples with locating the tunnel entrance as night falls.
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Father McGrath
Rathway
Lee
Joyce
Anc
Pelly
Wall
C. P
Fort Whipple Arizona Once A Territorial Capital
Fort Whipple in Arizona, built 1863 near Granite Creek, served as temporary territorial capital in 1864 under Governor John N. Goodsin. It spurred Prescott’s rise, later became Crook’s base against Apache bands, and now remains a historic western post with notable military legacy.
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Fort Whipple
Arizona
Granite Creek
Maj
B. Willis
James I. Rip
Cameron
Amiel Weeks Whippley
Chancellorsville
John N. Goodsin
Territory
Military Department of
California
George Crook
Southwest
Crook
War Department
Freed by a Lock of Hair
Lee attempts to reenter the city by climbing the cliff, scanning for landmarks and a hidden tunnel entrance amid the chasm. He starts a careful ascent, gripping holes in the wall to reach an ingress hidden along the wall’s recesses.
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Sisyphus
Tartarus
Lee
Inhabited or Outlawed Mars Debate in Ledger
The Phila delphis Ledger ponders whether Mars is inhabited or outlawed in a concise opinion piece. The brief asks readers to weigh the status of Mars and its implications for exploration and policy.
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Mars
Philadelphis Ledger
Sutter and the Gold Rush Rise to a Monarch of All He Surveyed
A Swiss adventurer born to German roots rose to power in California after 1838 forming Fort New Helvetia at the Sacramento and American river junction. Gold discovery led to looting and exodus. Sutter died impoverished in Lititz, Pennsylvania in 1880 as California became U.S. territory.
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Germany
California
Juan Alvaredo
American River
Sacramento
New Helvetia
Micheltoreau
Alvaredo
John A. Sutter
James W. Marshall
Sutter
Coloma
San Francisco
Fort New Helvetia
Fort Sacramento
United States
Lititz
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Free Traders
Red
Rath
McGrath
Victor Rousseau
De’ll’s
Board of Missions
Tee
Helene Pelly
U. S
Western Newspaper Union
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