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Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace A Texas Frontier Saga
In 1867 the narrator visits frontier ally Big-Foot Wallace near a Texas ranch. Wallace recalls his early 1837 trek with a survey party, hunting deer bears wolves turkeys and beehives, boarding peril from Indians and cowmen, trading for vegetables, and surviving a rattlesnake bite and a brutal bear encounter while describing rugged trails sheltering in rock roofs and Burnt Boot headwaters.
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