Killdeer Mountain: A NovelSam Morrison, reports for the "Saint Louis Herald," is in Dakota country looking for stories. He decides to join a group of passengers on a steamboat going up the Missouri River for the dedication of a new fort named in honor of one Charles Rawley. On the way he talks to a number of different people about Rawley, including a mysterious stranger who might even be Rawley himself, though Sam has been given at least two eyewitness accounts of Rawley's death. The stranger, who calls himself Alex Selkirk (the true name of Robinson Crusoe, though this is never mentioned), might however, be a former Rebel named Drew Hardesty - also reportedly dead. Is Rawley a hero or fraud? Is he alive or dead? Morrison is determined to find out. |
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... gold fields . The scheme was a darling of the Washington politicians - they were running out of gold to pay for the war - anyway La Prade grabbed the whole bat- talion of Galvanized Yankees , leaving Major Rawley with only the ten men ...
... gold fields . The scheme was a darling of the Washington politicians - they were running out of gold to pay for the war - anyway La Prade grabbed the whole bat- talion of Galvanized Yankees , leaving Major Rawley with only the ten men ...
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... gold fields . After that he became a trader to would - be miners coming upriver , greenhorns in need of tools and dried foodstuffs and mules - especially mules . For a miner a mule was a neces- sity , but none of the newcomers realized ...
... gold fields . After that he became a trader to would - be miners coming upriver , greenhorns in need of tools and dried foodstuffs and mules - especially mules . For a miner a mule was a neces- sity , but none of the newcomers realized ...
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... gold coins with which the major had bought her silence . She would never tell me of the gold , how she guarded it , how she later used it . Not even when she glowed with the enchant- ment and false confidence brought on by the drink I ...
... gold coins with which the major had bought her silence . She would never tell me of the gold , how she guarded it , how she later used it . Not even when she glowed with the enchant- ment and false confidence brought on by the drink I ...
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