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Sleepy Cat frontier tale centers on Moses gambling loss
McAlpin confronts Moses and Mrs. McCracken over six hundred dollars lost to three-card play. The River quarter era brokered by Bunty Bartoe's gambling house prompts a plan to recover the money as town figures—John Lefever and John Selwood—withdraw from the fray while Sleepy Cat's frontier buyers and traders loom large in the scene.
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McAlpin
Moses
John>Cole
Alexis Roubidoux
Roubidoux
Kickbusch
Chris
Otto
McAlspin
McCrackens
Cat
River Quarter
St Joe
Sacramento
Bunty Bartoe
Wlliam
William Pardalee
McCracken
John Lefever
Russell
Wentworth
Lefever
Jim McAlpin
John
Frontier&men
McApin
John Selwood
David Tracy
Selwood
Sanger-Boyd
Tracy
Missouri River
Sierras