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Explosive Paper and a Tale of Bar Hunting
The article blends a vivid regional anecdote about a settler near Dry Fork Creek with a distant digression on explosives. It includes a speaker recounting a giant bear and a day’s hunt, plus a technical note on Petry blasting paper made from blotting paper mixed with prussiate and chlorate compounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fork Creek
Enlightenment
Gobblin
Auddon
Jawa
Ben
Jimb
Weller
Petry
Vienna