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He's a Black Abolitionist Sahi
In 1832 Lieutenant Knox on duty at Fort Armstrong travels to St. Louis by steamer Warrior. He meets Judge Beaucaire and gambler Joe Kirby as they scheme over a plantation stake and enslaved people. After a dispute and a double-dealing poker match, Knox is thrown overboard and survives washed ashore in a hut owned by Pete the man who shot him by mistake.
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Knox
Regular Army
Fort Armstrong
Rock Island
Ill
St. Louis
Warrior
Judge Beaucaire
Joe Kirby
Devil’s Own
Rene
Kirby
Joe Carver
Beaucaire
Carver
Leutenant
Ucons
Pete
Clark
Haines
de Landin
Banding
Ol’ Pete
Uwamnes
Pate
Throckmorton
Rene Beaucaire
Mister Haines
Missus
Della
North
Delia
Beleve
Beaucaitre
Plantation House
Eloise Beaucaire
New Orleans
Eloise
Ohio
Illinois