Dinner Brawl Sways Fortunes In Desert Valley
Rickard, an O P executive, navigates courtship between Gerty and Tom Hardin while preparing to lead a levee push amid hostile engineers and river threats. Tense dinner scenes reveal rivalries, loyalty, and a plan to mobilize labor from Mexicans and Cocopahs as the Colorado threatens the Imperial Valley.
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K. C. Rickard
Overland Pacific
Marshall
Tucson
Rickard
Colorado River
Thomas Hardin
Desert Reclamation Company
Hardin
Eastern College
Gerry Holmes
Imperial Valley
Calexico
Innes Hardin
Estrada
Innes U
Richard
Gerty
Tom
Shim
Bodefeldt
Wooster
Grant
Tom Hardin
Gerty Holmes
Mr. Rickard
Rickerd
Innes
Jasper Grigg
Missouri
Gert
Gerry
Gerly
Cerry
Sir Innes
Lawrence
Cov
Achilles
Mrs. Hardin
Los Angeles
New York
Chicago
Uardin
Tlardins
Genny
Tie
Geerty
Silent
2 Wooster
Black Butte
Mexicali
Mexico
Yuma
Mistrada
Coulter’s
D. R. Company
Desert Hotel
Bookmini
Colorado
Chase
O. P
MacLean
Tacna
Patagonia
Old Hamlin
Porter
Zacatecas
Brandon
Matt Hamlin
Maldonado
Coronel
Gila
Coat
Trapper
Squaw
Dobe
Cor’ne
Hamlin
Cor'nel
Cor’nel
Ted Marshall
Junior
Hardin's Failure Rocks Rickard's Plans
Rickard's scheme falters as Hardin neglects instructions causing a setback. Rickard had scouted the idea and charged it to inefficiency, with fate seemingly aligning against them. The excerpt ends hinting at a forthcoming instalment.
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Hardin
Rickard
Creatures That Weep Among Sensitive Animals
The passage notes that ruminants are among the creatures that weep easily. It claims the stag sheds tears, the bear weeps when wounded, and the giraffe also shows tearful eyes toward a hunter who has wounded it.
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