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Plike Gabel and the Smoky Hill Mail Route Family Tale
The narrator recalls Grandma Gabel and her foundling boy Plike along with Tobe on a remote Kansas hills ranch. They cherish letters from Kentucky, the bond with a mail carrier, and Plike’s vivid imagination, schooling, and wonder in a hard life marked by memory and place.
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Grandma Gabels
Tully Gabel
Smoky Hill Valley
Star House
Kansas
Ted Witherspoon
John Milton
Gabel
Bor
Tobe
Kentucky Mountains
Litte Pike
Becaus
Tully
Gabels
Grandma Gabel
Kentucky
Hil