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Night and Day in Peril on the Missouri Frontier
A first-person reminiscence describes a perilous river crossing near Council Bluffs. Four travelers, including a Yankee, a quadroon, and a beckweedsman, confront Pawnee and lynch law, a brutal ambush, and a rescue of sorts as they navigate lawless wilderness and shifting loyalties before reaching a rough settlement and continuing their hazardous journey upriver.
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Hartford
Oun
Ameual Fremiums
Protection Insurance Company
United States
America
Hartford Bank
General Agency
Cincinnati
Wesp
Ebenezer Moore
Quincy
Adams County
L H Bull
Missouri River
Earth
New Mexico
Maine
Beckweedsman
Quadroon
Council Bluffs
Daner
New World
Elkhorn
Alps
Jim Bowers
Godge
Jim
Kentucky
Belligrent
Sinbad the Sailor
Missouri
Lampede
West
South West
Senate
Hiro
Uncle Sam
Colon
Thoee Wilds
Tyne
Minois
Clinois
Europe
Massachusetts
New York
Philadelphia
Reading
Madison and Indianapolis Road
Indiana
Illinois
Mississippi
Ohio
Wabash
Lake
Michigan
Confederation of States
St. Louis
Boston
Alton
Chester
Galena
Charleston
South Carolina
Covington
Louisville
Madison
Terre Haute
Vincennes
N. York and Erie
General Assembly