Desperate Pursuit Across Snow Shadows
Major McDonald’s daughter Molly flees toward Fort Ripley as Indian threats loom. Sergeant Hamlin, once disgraced in the Confederacy, allies with Hughes to trail LeFevre’s wagon train across a blizzard scarred landscape toward a dangerous night chase into the Canadian front.
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McDonald
Fort Dodge
Molly
Brick
Hamlin
LeFevre
Amlin
Gaskins
Fort Ripley
Wasson
Dupont
Conners
Cimmaron
Carroll
Hughes
The Fight in the Snow Brings a Plan for Le Fevre
Sergeant Hamlin and Hughes pursue Le Fevre through a snowbound valley toward the bend of the river Hoping to rescue Miss Molly and capture Le Fevre alive. Hamlin orders Hughes to follow, asserting control and warning of consequences if he fails.
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Hughes
Canadidh
Kentry
Black Kettle
Buffalo Creek
le Fevre
Hamlin
Molly
Feeding the Zone A Panamanian Commissary Megamachine
The Isthmian Canal Commission runs a vast Panama railroad subsistence system feeding about 70 000 people daily. Cristobal stores and cold towers stock 400 beeves and hogs 150 tons of potatoes and 10 tons of poultry daily, with 20 000 loaves baked daily and 149 000 gallons of ice cream yearly. The operation funds hotels messes kitchens and hospitals for US soldiers sailors and workers at low prices.
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Colon
C. Z
Panama Canal
Department of Sanitation
Commissary Department
Panama Railroad
United States
Goethals
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama
United States Navy
Department
Cristobal
Porto Bello
Eugene Wilson
Perading
Coffee
Wilson
Culebra
Pedro Miguel
Ancon Hospital
Belliot
Commission
Too Good to Lend and Gladys’ Quip on Borrowing
A brief Life magazine style quip shows Gladys praising a novel as perfectly splendid. She jokes she would lend it but it belongs to someone else, highlighting a playful exchange about borrowing books.
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Agnhes
Gladys
Readings on Browning Charm Douglas Jerrold’s Verdict
An anecdote recalls Douglas Jerrold’s struggle to understand Browning’s Sordelia during illness and his exclamation that he must not be an idiot. A Pennsylvania doctor’s tale then jokes about a thermometer kept below 70 degrees and cooling outside until it is safe again.
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Douglas Jerrold
Browning
Robert Browning
Jerrold
Jer
Pennsylvania
Newark Star
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Molly McDonald
Tale OF the Frontier
A-C.msclurg
Kansad
Pardner
Canais Zone
Pickard
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