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Trapper Encounters Two Explorers Near Indian Shrine and Firerock
In the early 1800s a trapper Sandy McGuire camps east of Port Orford near the Sixes and Elk river headwaters. He befriends explorers Dr Evans and Captain Hoyt, learns of an old Pow wow site and a meteorite rock. The party charms two elderly chieftains who recount a legend of the Firerock and the Great Swalalahist. They collect a three pound rock fragment later studied as a meteorite parasite and sent to a Vienna museum.
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Sandy McGuire
Port Orford
McGuire
Sixes River
Johnson Creek
Mac
Rogue River
Coquille River
Redman
Ian Summer
Sandy
Redbank Gap
de Silas Evans
Eldon Hoyt
Cap'n
Old Brown Rock
Dr Evans
Pacific
Loggina
Hoyt
How
Metsuires
Thieftain
Paleface
Captain Hoyt
National Capitol
Vienna
Austria
Dr. Evang