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Newspaper
Moyie Leader
Location
Moyie, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1901
Page
4
A garbled wartime piece hints at many “men behind” roles from cannon to ballot, bar, plow, and stage. It references figures behind politics and war, with scattered phrases about labor, danger, and a search for honest work amid upheaval.
Buck Simmons tends a prairie plow watching earth ribbons as Billings seeks to buy a claim. The exchange centers on price, land quality, and logistics with Buck offering a full quarter section for 1000 dollars and Billings negotiating a rent-and-pay plan before signing papers and advancing payment.
In a tense frontier scene Buck and Billings discuss rival claim conflicts over a settler’s site. Mandy erupts with a corn knife, injures livestock, and chases a man across the prairie, forcing Buck and Billings to flee in a wagon while Mandy pursues.
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