A Story of the Great North West
A fragmentary plot summary from a lumber camp tale follows Walter Sandry as he befriends foreman John Daily and encounters Siletz the Indian girl. Poppy Ordway, a New York writer, schemes with Hampden against Landry over land rights while river rafting turns deadly. Sandry is injured, Poppy seeks leverage, and a tense power struggle unfolds with romantic entanglements and threats of vengeance.
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Stietz
Daily
Walter Sandry
John Daily
Tlingsworth Lumber Co
We Camp
Siletz
Mietz
Poppy Ordway
New York
Daily's
Plampden
Yellow Pines Co
East Belt
Landry
Hampden
Sandry
Poppy
Salem
Calous
Ma Daily
Sandry Poppy
Hamp
Landry Keeps Camp Moving as Tensions Rise
In May the Landry camp advances work with lumberjacks from Sacramento and a second raft for Portland Lumber. Landry lifts the mortgage with a large payment and weighs Hampden’s encroaching track into his territory while Miss Ordway pressures for leverage to oust Hampden. Walter Landry plans to confront Hampden when he can travel to Salem.
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Johnny Eastern
Hampden
Walter Landry
Campden
Landry
Poppy Ordway
Ma Daily
Siletz
Sacramento
Portland Lumber Company
Camp
East Belt
Walter
Sanery
Salem
Sandry
A Cruel Weapon in Whitby Mystery Unfolds
In Farnsworth & Heathcote offices Miss Poppy Ordway pushes for details of a high profile Whitby estate case. The reading reveals a forged letter by a dead magnate and a vanished 502000 in high denomination bills. Miss Ordway implications point to Wilton Landry and a year in Europe as linked clues.
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Farnsworth & Heathcote
New York
Poppy Ordway
Farnsworth
James B. Whitby
Standard Copper and Zinc Company
Consolidated
Whitby, Halstead, Witherspoon & Haste
Whitby
Whitby Place
Aredale
New Jersey
Wilton Landry
Riverside Drive
Musseldorn
Mr. Wilton Landry
Europe
Uw'm
Ordway
The Right Law sparks tense studio moment on river camp
Poppy Ordway returns to Daily’s in a Wild West mood as Landry and Liletz stir tension. She and Walter discuss a plot twist while Liletz’s daring entry tests boundaries and the melodrama of power, love, and artistic ambition builds to a dangerous brink.
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Poppy Ordway
Daily's
Landry
Liletz
Sandry
Black Bolt
Miss Ordway
Iman
Silet
Miss Grdway
Patience in Work Not In Crap Games Says Uncle Eben
Uncle Eben voices a practical view on patience. He says patience helps a man keep working but warns it is useless if it makes him cling to a craps game. The quote reflects a folksy measure of prudence.
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Uncle Eben
Daily Thought on Reason and Bigotry
A short quotation discusses belief and reasoning, noting that those who cannot or will not reason may become fools or bigots. The piece attributes the line to Sir W. Drursice and presents it in a terse reflective tone.
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W. Drursice
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Great North West
Vingie E. Roe
Toppy Gidway
Oregon Hills
Lilett
Wat
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