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McAndrew’s Stand (opens the original)
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All Clarence Harper’s hopes began to evaporate like the morning dew as soon as he rose the next day. It had been some good long while since Harper had slept out under the stars and it was not an experience that he was anxious to repeat. He felt various aches and pains and wanted nothing so much as to have a long soak in a hot bath. There being no prospect of such a thing right then, he thought that he might as well get up and go and bully somebody instead; which always cheered him a little.It wa
McAndrew’s Stand (opens the original)
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Two things had happened by the time that the sun had set that day. The first was that the railroad tracks had crept within a half mile of McAndrew’s Pass and the other that Jack McAndrew had left his house and was sitting quietly in the barn, setting a watch upon the surrounding countryside. He was positioned up in the hay-loft, right by a crack between the boards which gave him a perfect view along the valley towards Sawyer’s Crossing. He could see the road leading to town and all the land in t
The Trial and Execution of Roger Casement in 1916 (opens the original)
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McAndrew’s Stand (opens the original)
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Don Rutledge was still trying to make up his mind about the wisdom, or otherwise, of riding up to the farmhouse and bracing the young fellow that lived there and warning him not to tangle with the Rocky Mountains Railroad Company. As usual, when he was feeling weak and undecided, he chose to take out his vexation on those around him. He shouted at the nearest men, “Come on, you lazy cowsons! Get a damned move on. You’re like a bunch of old women.” From high overhead came a dull boom, which put R
Is Transgender Surgery the New Lobotomy? (opens the original)
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