Woman Divided By Deserted Mission In Arctic Prospect Tale
Pat Wellington travels with Warren Lovett to a Canadian Arctic mining field near Resurrection River then confronts secrecy and danger. She befriends prospector Bill Former and helps him while Warren and Craig Tarlton clash over the dubious mission and the fate of a growing community house project.
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Warren Lovett
Wellington, Parkes & Lovett
Mines
Chicago
Canadian Arctic
Resurrection River
Dynamite Bay
Patricia
Jasper
Wellington
Warren
Pat
Lupe Chiwaughimi
Craig Tarlton
Craig
Patricia's Stormy October Morning at Rock-Hog Den
Patricia endures a raw October day as a mail arrives and a bank overdrawn notice prompts her to seek Warren. She surveys the struggling community house she built, the Rock-Hog Den, where 75 rock-hogs live and wait for a real rest amid ongoing funding and management challenges.
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Arctic Ocean
Patricia
Lupe Chiwaughimi
Fort Smeeth
Mees
Lupe
Frances
Chicago
Warren
Resurrection
Patricia Wellington defies money cut and moves to prospectors
Patricia Wellington refuses her father and Warren Lovett’s pressure, shifts from the Dynamite Bay community house to a prospector camp, and confronts desertion threats as her funds vanish and her social circle frays. She faces isolation with Craig Tarlton’s distance, looming Arctic winter, and a sudden turn in her plans.
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Patricia
Dynamite Bay
Warren
la Salle Street
Chicago
Tarlton
Wellington
Parkes & Lovett
Patricia Wellington
Craig Tarlton
Dad
the Bay
Tarton
Craig
Odron
Ellyn
Warren. Lovett
Dover Plains Girl Survives Night of Wild Beasts and Cliff Edge Thrills
In February 1914 eighteen year old Dorothy Daily recounts a perilous return ride from Dover Plains to Chestnut Ridge. A half blind horse slips toward a cliff as darkness falls and Dorothy clings to branches to avoid a fatal fall. After escaping that danger she ascends a tree to dodge a pack of starving dogs, then is found by a farmer at dawn and brought home.
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Ello
Dorothy Murphy
Dorothy
Chestnut Ridge
Dover Plains
N. Y
Brownie
Australia’s Tropics Reach One Third of Land
A historical summary notes that about one third of Australia, 1,149,000 square miles, lies in the tropics while 1,825,000 square miles fall in the temperate zone. It points out Australia’s island geography moderates weather extremes compared with similar regions globally.
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Australia
La Salle's Westward Quest and the La Chine Rapids
The Chevalier de La Salle began his westward voyage near the La Chine rapids, a name given by rivals after his failed bid to reach the Orient. The term La Chine meaning China in French tied the rapids to that mythic destination.
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Lachine Rapids
la Chine
China
Chevalier de la Salle
West
Orient
Lachiné Rapids
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Chapter
William Byron Mowery
WNU Service
Poleon
Bill
Desolation
Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
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