An Artist in Yreka and the Rose Leaves Trail
A rugged artist Arthur Bantry recalls his vanished wife and daughter while leading a northern California expedition from Yreka to pursue the Modoc threat. His tale threads seven years of frontier peril, a captured beauty named Rose, and a now uneasy alliance with Captain Rodgers amid snowbound retreat.
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Yreka
California
Arthur Bantry
Pacific Coast
Bantry
Arthur
Nelson Garth
Indiana
Rene
Rose Bantry
Mount Shasta
Modoc County
Soda Springs
Senator Stanford
Rose
Lieut
Crook
Igo
Capt
Rodgers
Playing Tricka with Vegetables
A note from Meehan's Monthly describes growing fruit inside glass bottles to delight children and teach plant growth. Cucumber family produce can be inserted into narrow bottle mouths on branches, growing inside the jars and sparking wonder about how fruits fit through the openings.
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George III
England
Meehan
Oklahoma Versus Gambling Rules Tighten Morality Lines
Oklahoma draws a strict morality line with a Guthrie law making all gambling a felony and banning progressive euchre parties with prize offers, reflecting frontier territory tensions over vice and law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahome
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Why Albany Beef Got Its Name for Sturgeon
A Fulton Market salt dealer explains the origin of Albany beef from Hudson River sturgeon. Early Albany fishermen tethered live sturgeon to river piles, calling them river cattle and beef. Today sturgeon abundance waned in the Hudson, with Lake Erie and Lake Ontario supplying more, while eggs and meat feed distant markets and caviar trade.
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Albany
Fulton Market
Hudson River
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Oswego
Michigan
Canadian
Russia
Sandusky
Ohio
The Twistings of Wallis Verses on Twisters
Dr John Wallis Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford in 1649 and author of verses on the word Twister in Johnsons Dictionary is recounted. A French scholar in 1653 praised derivatives and offered four lines on rope making. Wallis translated into English, matching syllables with equal richness, adding further quatrains about twisting and untwisting twines and twisters.
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John Wallis
Savilian
Oxford
Johnson
Wallis
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Shasta
Joaquin Miller
Valley of Death
Modoc
Ike Rodgers
Sierras
Napoleon
Alps
Hannibal
Cortez
Pitt River
Dr. Wallis
New Haven
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