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Dinner Amid Desert Rivalry Tests Gerty Hardin
In a pivotal Tucson dinner, engineer Rickard tours Desert Reclamation rivals, learns gossipy river trouble, and faces Tom and Innes Hardin. Gerty orchestrates a smooth host scene while Rickard contemplates supplanting Hardin and the looming levee project amid desert politics and river danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. C. Rickard
Overland Pacific
Marshall
Tucson
Rickard
Colorado River
Thomas Hardin
Desert Reclamation Company
Hardin
Eastern College
Gerty Holmes
Imperial Valley
Calexico
Innes Hardin
Estrada
Gerty
Tom
Innes
Jasper Grigg
Missouri
Gert
Tom Hardin
Richard
Mr. Rickard
Lawrence
Achilles
Mrs. Hardin
Los Angeles
New York
Chicago
Silent
Black Butte
Mexicali
Te Desert
Mexico
Yuma
Gerry
Coulter’s
D. R. Company
Desert Hotel
Wooster
Colorado
Chuse
O. P
MacLean
Tacna
Patagonia
Hamilin’s
Porter
Zacatecas