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Marshall Herald in Marshall, Illinois

19 Nov 1919

Page 6

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Marshall Herald

Location

Marshall, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Nov 19, 1919

Page

6

Knocks River Mission and Slavery Tangle on the River

In 1832 Lieutenant Knox travels from Fort Armstrong to St Louis aboard the Warrior. He meets Judge Beaucaire and Joe Kirby. Kirby and Carver scheme to seize Beaucaire’s plantation and slaves in a cheating poker game. Beaucaire dies. Knox is cast overboard. He survives with Pete the foretold “free nigger” and seeks safety with Amos Shrunk. Kirby’s faction murders Shrunk and Carver. Knox and Sam flee upriver aboard a keelboat, pursued by Kirby's men.

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River peril and a daring rescue on the Adventurer

Stranded after a keelboat crash, the narrator clings to a wreck and is swept toward danger. A northern river steamer, the Adventurer of Memphis, rescues him with Mapes and crew, as rumors of a militia action near Yellow Banks ignite tensions and complicate his plan to save Rene Beaucaire.

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Sam Kirby Rene Rene Beaucaire Mor Grodkas Adventurer of Memphis Haines Mapes Yellow Banks Furst Yellow Banks Black Hawk St. Louce New Orleans Eloise Beaucaire Eloise Delia Bloise Beaucaire Steve
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