Westward Ambition Shapes a Young Northerner's Path
In a Cohasset family setting, Rob confronts his fate beyond legacy and law. On his thirtieth birthday, a will and half-sister shape a secure future, but Rob senses sterner limits. A talk with his mother in the library shifts his aim from law to a year at sea or the West, sparked by a hidden courage and a renewed drive to define his own course.
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Coasset Common
Harvard
New England
Cold Harbor
Boston
Imother
Wailly
Nellie Erris
Brenty
Mother
Rob
Cohasset
Aiden
Harrison
Cohngset Harbor
Albany
Mother Agrees to Fund Rocky Mountain Venture
The narrator recalls his mother’s firm stance on funding his two year trek to the Rockies. She insists he pay his own way if he wants true adventure, promising to support return travel if needed and setting a two year limit. He accepts, realizing practical effort must back idealized wanderlust.
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Robert
Tilden
Holworthy Hall
California
Rockies
West
Mother
Buck
Sen Iion
Tuck
Shorty
Tenderfoot
Placer
White Mule Gulch
Jennie June
John Ferguson
Ad Woolwich
Marcus
Derringer
Copper Canyon Prospect and the Hard-Won Westward Start
A narrator recounts leaving Denver with mother’s money in reserve and taking a clerk job in a German grocer’s shop. He joins Buck and Shorty to mine at Cottonwood, endures rough camps, and helps publish a frontier newspaper, chasing the elusive Cottonwood strike while adjusting to western work ethics.
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Reichmann
Curtis Street
Denver
West
White Mountain
Rocky Mountain
Cottonwood
Buck
Hartly
Shorty
Idaho
Bear Creek
Cottonwood Camp
Niell
Main Street
Marcus
Cottonwood Courier
Picayune
Tenderfoot
Black Canyon
Jones County Road Graveling District Hearings
Anamosa Iowa September 20 1927 Supervisors reopen hearing on Monticello Onslow county road graveling district. Petition by W H Hanken seeks establishment with one fourth costs assessed to described property and lists lands and owners within the proposed district per county engineer report.
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Anamosa
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Hughes
Monticello-Onslow County
Jones County
W. H. Hanken
Monticolo-Onslow County
Hardy chrysanthemums aim for September bloom in northern gardens
U S department horticulturists race to develop hardy chrysanthemums with bloom windows from September 1 to 15 for northern states and September 15 to October 1 for slightly warmer areas. The note adds that Harding was the only president to visit Canada.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Harding
Canada
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Union Station
Rocky Mountain News
Help Wanted
Teamsters
Parlroad
Bureau of Information
Longmount
Wappen
Siegel
Beer Hall
Wyoming Township
Number
Gorman
John
George C
Corbit
R. M
Scrogele
R. A
Garside
W. J
John and
Ingwersen
Leonard
Geo. F
Madison Township
Swig
Kennedy
J. R
Lyons
Sway Han
E. H
Sets
Tomlinson
Joe
Holst
N. C
Nitanel
J. N
Hanken
J. B
Young Bros
Moses
J. M
John M
Nis Neta
Letze
Peter
Moncrief
R. J
Livingston
John W
Seehusen
Henry G
Smith
J. H.zst
Norris
T. F
Ney
Serbousek
Matie
James
Harry C
Andreas D
McDonald
G. D
Thompson
S. G
Fadley
W. H
Nel
Nwa
Wasson
Joseph
Chamberlain
Park
Clay Township
Miller
Harry
Fugelsang
Assesso
Geo. C
Swia
H. W
Russell
Lizzie
Streeper
B. W
John & Geo. C
Y. Si
Herman W
Sw. Schneiter
See's. Harms
G. A
Ne's
Wih
Scotch Grove Township
Kiburz
E. C
Nes
Clark
W. B
Tobiasson
Geo
Hill
G. H
McNeilly
M. J
Oltman
L. A
Matilda
Reuter
John B
Jacobs
Paul
Nwty
Bartels
Henry
Sete
Plueger
Carl F
H. R
Lind
August
Sel
Willian Schoan
Hunter
W. W
Bartols
George
Stanwty
Balster
Henry C
Wolken
John H
Lund
Folkers
Leggett
Wm. S
Sinclair
M. M
Callahan
William
Ireland
Geo. W
Heeren
E. J
Graham
Mary A
Wilson
Robert and
Thomas
Hagen
J. H. Jr
Brady
D. K
Schiemme
L. J
Oral
Sly
Swiy
Kuhns
Joseph A
Welgens
R. H
Gesine
Schiemmer
C. J
Carl
Hutton
W. S
G. J
Seta
Neti
Swii
Ahraken
Helgens
Gesina
Arend
Scotch Grove
A. Kuhns
Leesekamp
Mary
Jacob
Lange
H. A
Bro
Lance
Royden
F. W
F. A
Ricklefs
Herman
R. P
Behnken
Harm
Nels
Poppe
Fred W
Bates
Nettie E
Husman
Henry J
Weers
Blanche Sutherland
Otten
Fred
Henricks
Grace J
Chas. H
Nea
Neh. Hughes
Chas
Nwhi
Schrader
Diedrick
Paulsen
Peter H
Thurman
Ben
Harms
Sele Sey
Paulson
Wis
Stingley
Ethel Moses
Cornelius
Sevy
Ethel
Leta
Gerhard
See
Ole Sot
Rieken
Tobias
Sutherland T. D
Blanche Clark
Wy Sety
Sutherland
Ney Ney
Schafer
Swhi
Sat. Nelson
Charles Henry
Bohlken
T. R
Henry H
Swili
Oly Sey
Charles C
Ce Hey
Ney Sety
Pangburn
Carson
W. IL
Hanwardsen
McNeilly, Jr
R. W
Hanwardson
Walters
Ella C
Nivend Tomashin
Monticello State Bank
Tibbitts
J. A
Sarah A
Ney Nwa
Neha
Mela Sey
Coxsee
J. W
Yaggi. John
Cooper
Wm. J
Sey
Schnelter
Chas. G
Awit
Wayne Township
Zimmerman
Pred F
Gerd
M. T
Behrends
Ben B
Tobiason
Sey, Hanken
Mary Tobiason
Buick
General Motors Proving Ground
Ves
F. W. Page
Monticello, Lowa
McCormick
Oxford
Hayes
Carl Rickels
F. L. Story
Lovell State Bank
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