Death in the Cards and a Sleepy Cat wedding night
Selwood and Christie wed at sunrise in the padre camp after a stormy clash with followers. Big Haynes arrives half dead with Meg Starbuck and Starbuck dead, Meg saved by Haynes. Haynes recounts a river disaster at Sleepy Cat and Meg dies in Starbuck’s arms. Christie consoles Margaret Hyde as doctors tend the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McAlpin
Selwood
Christie
Padre
Belwood
Selsood
Roper
John Roper Selwood
West Point
Pardalee
Bob
Starbuck
Meg
Medicine Bend
Crawling Stone Creek
Haynes
John
Margaret Starbuck
Joo
Margaret
Mez
Stirbuck
Hegdin
Sleepy Cat
Otto
Scott
Bull
Plum
Pardaloe
Calabasas
Carpy
Pardalbe
Meg Hyde
Carey
Doc
McAlpin
Margaret Hyde
Sellwood
Selwood and Christie Decide to Stay Despite Turmoil
In Sleepy Cat country Wentworth and Carpy weigh Selwood’s options as California dreams clash with frontier pressures. Selwood and Christie arrive at a hotel breakfast with a resolve to stay, despite threats, economic strain, and violence surrounding the Sleepy Cat tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selwood
Wentworth
Carpy
Crawling Stone
Cat
Sleepy Cat
Christie
John
Rocky Mountain Divide
California
McAlpin
Lefever
Pardaloe
Bob Scott
Sulwood
Carey
Birch-Bark Canoe Dwindles Among Northern Indians
The birch-bark canoe, once a staple of northern Canada’s indigenous peoples, has grown rare among those trading-post and mining camp communities in Ontario and Quebec. The article notes a fading craft, contrasting traditional skill with modern hunting and trapping pursuits, and hints at cultural shifts and fascination with new motorized transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Courtney Tyley Cooper
Saturday Evening Post
Aldmers
Driven Not Drivers in Conscience vs Coaching Style
Fragmentary remark compares following conscience to a coach failing to follow the horse, invoking Whately. The line suggests a metaphor about guidance and control in decision making.
Gooses and Gooses: a Tailor’s Fable on Money
An odd fragment notes a man with money and holes in his pocket, contrasting gooey money talk with a tailor’s craft. The piece hints at wasteful spending and the idea of money burning a hole in the pocket, framed as a fable-like musing.
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Pelthit
Ike
Indy
Big Haynes
Haggrard
Aue
Honeer
Volca
Christie’ T
Christie’ S
Californias
Our Inc
Thief River
Okee
Pinkham
Cleveland, Ohta
Lydia
M. Bressigeen
Ano
Jeee Ave
Cleveland
Ohio
Golq
Lydia E. Pinkham
Gor
Gland
NUVO
Neuritis
Lumbago
Schatten
Nuvo Laboratories
Tul
Russia
Moscow
Taj
Yestre
Gelanc
New York
DY Scholls
Plerkmar
Dane Sible
Ubmar
Utah
Salt Lake
Lund
Temple
Hanford
Hay-O Co
Sundance
Lust
Tlea
Nauritia
Adams Goperear
Gopayn CO
Aberdeen
E. A. Bock
Soba Earentence
W.N. U
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