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Mammy Polly Defies Bandit in Silent City Squatters Stand Firm
In a tense standoff in the Silent City squatter camp MacKenzie offers twenty five dollars per family for surrender of rights. Polly Hopkins defends the settlement calling herself the mammy of the place and refusing to leave as the men resist and the pistol is drawn.
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Polly
MacKenzie
Wee Jerry
Daddy Hopkins
Chen Pollyop
Marcos
Hull
MacKensie
Keery