Valley of the Giants and the Redwoods Preservation
An appreciative profile of Peter B. Kyne and his tale The Valley of the Giants. It highlights rugged characters like John Cardigan and Bryce Cardigan, the Save the Redwoods League, and the push for a Redwoods national park to spare Sequoia and Sequoia sempervirens from destruction.
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Peter B. Kyne
The
Redwoods
Pacific
Philippines
France
California
John Cardigan
Colonel Pennington
Bryce Cardigan
Shirley Sumner
Christ
Earth
Save the
Congress
Cardigan and the Redwood Quest of California
In 1850 a Topsail schooner anchors near Trinidad head and John Cardigan lands with rifle and pack. He pioneers Humboldt county redwood forests, felling giants to ship lumber, later building the first sawmill and expanding his timber empire amid love, loss, and ambition.
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Trinidad Head
John Cardigan
Cardigan
Bryce Cardigan
California
Coast Range
Oregon
Monterey Bay
San Joaquin Valley
Sierras
Redwood Belt
Michigan
Valparaiso
Humboldt County
Humboldt Bay
Tidewater
San Francisco
Sequoia founder Cardigan dreams and lives on redwoods
John Cardigan, founder of Sequoia, pursues timber ambitions from a six room mansion to a bustling city. He marries a ship captain's daughter, faces the death of his wife, and preserves a Valley of the Giants as a private city park while vowing to raise his son among his trees.
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Sequoia
Humboldt Bar
John Cardigan
City of
Argonaut
Cardigan
Humboldt Bay
Falklands
Evangelistas
Taffrail
Bryce
McTavish
Valley of the Giants
Yonder Gap
Cardigan’s Loss Deepens as Bryce Joins Mill Life
A widowed housekeeper and a nurse of mixed heritage join John Cardigan’s household after the death of Bryce’s mother. Cardigan intensifies his bond with his son, bringing him to the mill and creating a playroom that links to his private office. Bryce grows closer to his father than to Mrs Tully or the nurse.
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Womaan
Bryce
Sequoia
Foster-Smother
Mrs. Tully
Dundee Center of Jute Industry in Scotland
Dundee ranks as a leading industrial and commercial center in northeastern and central Scotland. The district of Dundee is the center of the jute industry in the United Kingdom and nearly all raw jute imported into the country, about 1 200 000 bales annually, is consumed there. It is the staple industry of Dundee and employs about 35 000 workers.
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Dundee
Scotland
United Kingdom
Little Philip Chooses Candy Despite Toothache
A boy named Philip cries all night with toothache and uses a nickel to buy candy. His aunt scolds him for spending her money, but Philip explains he is not eating candy on the toothache side.
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Philip
Nervous Prostration Patient Praises Pinkham Remedy
In Binghamton New York a woman recalled a year long nervous condition with foggy mind and inability to work. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports improved health and urges others with nervous prostration to try the remedy. She endorses the product's safety and suggests writing Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Recruiting Sergeant Keeps Up Push in Wartime
A dialogue shows a recruiting sergeant pressuring a potential recruit to decide immediately, promising life in the army with food and clothing and travel, while the recruit contemplates and plans to return in a day or two, noting the sergeant’s eagerness to be demobilized.
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By Peter B. Kyne
Toby
Atall
Murine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Holland
Wilhelmina
Peterson
A. C. Gilbrath
Reed S&j
Erie
Gruggists
Peterson Ointment Co., Inc
Buffalo
Barold Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
Ss. G. Warner Street
Springfield
Mass
Indianapolis
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