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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1892
Page
7
A mountain journey ends in a tense pursuit as a cyclist racing along a desert trail near Maybelos evades a roving band of half breeds and trappers. The rider, pursuing a nostalgic return to cycling, outpaces pursuers while navigating a long, bare plateau with danger looming from hidden assailants and hostile terrain.
A first person tale recounts a perilous chase by armed riders known as ringers across a plateau. The narrator crosses a ravine on a narrow plank, narrowly avoids discovery, and witnesses a Creole rider knocked aside by a water gourd. He escapes by leaping the plank, bicycles and rope gear vanish into a chasm, then returns to station to recount the ordeal near a campfire with comrades. Two days later the survey ends and the narrator resumes cycling adventures.
In a Wyoming frontier siege of 1778, Amos Stafford, a nineteen year old youth, eluded brutal assault as Indians slaughtered hundreds at Forty Fort. After rescuing a pursuer, he fled through river water and marsh then hid in a hollow tree two nights, surviving without food or clothing until meeting locals who aid him. The tale blends frontier peril with a miraculous, almost miraculous, escape.
A composite profile of frontier women highlighted for grit and leadership. It details Mrs Simpson rescuing her husband from a cattle stampede, Miss Kimball guiding Col Rankin to safety, and Mrs Emma Perry turning cattle and land to wealth through botany and bold riding. It also notes broader roles of women in journalism and public life across the West.
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