California old Fernando knew before the gringo came
A serialized Western portrait recalls Fernando, his Butte Pass cattle range, and Violetta known as Tiger Lily. Dixon, a gringo from the States, courts the free-spirited Tige amid California's rugged plains and a fading landscape of fast horses, vaquero craft, and frontier daring.
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California
Fernando
San Francisco
Bay
Sacramento
Helvetia
Sutter
Feather River
Buttes
Butte Pass
Violetta
Dixon
States
Sobrante
Tiger Lily
Tige
New England
Breaker
Tige Faces Paralyzed Dixon and Dark Resolve
Dixon, paralyzed after a long illness, lies helpless as Tige devotes months to his care at a ranch house. When longing becomes love she vows to stay, and amid family opposition plans to remain. On the final night she contemplates ending his life to spare him a future of slow dying. She ultimately intends to act but the revolver fires, saving him, as she hides the truth and faces an uncertain departure.
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Pedro
Filipe
Dixon
Juana
Mahaly
Fernando
Tige
Breaker
Mexico
Juarez
Sobrante Grant
Golden Plains
San Francisco
Argonaut
The Summer Shower and Other Verse Notes
A collage of verse fragments from Chambers' Journal and various poets offers reflections on rain and renewal, urban life, and everyday labor. The pieces include nature imagery, dialect sketches, and moral musings attributed to Washington Star, St. Nicholas, Farm Journal, and Chicago Record-Herald.
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Chambers’ Journal
Each Soul Shall Find Its Star
Poem fragment expresses a traveler’s longing for home and guidance as the speaker ascends toward distant worlds. The speaker vows that every soul will ultimately reach its star, balancing homesickness with hopeful fate. Arthur Stringer quotes a celestial journey and inner resolution.
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Earth
Arthur Stringer
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Mr. Busyman
Mistah
Bran
Washington Star
The
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William Hurd Hillyer
St. Nicholas
F. H. Sweet
Farm Journal
God
Etta Wallace Miller
Atlanta Constitution
S. E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Endeavor
Adele E. Shaw
Minneapolis
the People's National Family Newspaper
York
Daily Tribune
United States
Warren, Pa
Nervita Medical Co
Clinton and
Jackson Sts
Chicago
Illinois
Siegfried’s Pharmacy
Warren
Warren Savings Bank
A. J. Hazeltine
0. W. Beaty
G. B. Ensworth
Geo. H. Jackson
O. W. Beaty
L. B. Wood
James Clark
Charles W. Stone
M. B Dunham
BR. Freeman
Chas. Sigel
KE. W. Campbell
Warren National Bank
Hon
Wm. D. Brown
Jerry Crary
D. W. Beaty
A. T. Scofield
Nelson P. Wheeler
G. N. Parmlee
Andrew Hertzel
Charles Chase
C. Schimmelfeng
Christian Smith
H. A. Jamieson
F. E. Hertzel
Cashier
T. O. Slater & CO
F. W. Devoe & Co
Stearns
Iver Johnson
Ummer Olales
Water ST
Citizens Natl Bank
David L. Gerould
E. T. Hazeltine
L. A Ee Aereira Tractors
Jas. O. Parmiee
Levi Smith
J. G. Bentis
G. W. Campbell
Samuel Peterson
Fred P. Hue
D. Lea
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