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A rancher shoots a woman as she shields her brother during a violent dispute over a property lease in the Grand Coulee.
“She in turn had sublet for one year to Liberty Sanford, an old settler... Mrs. Northrup wished to regain possession.”
A young, nameless conductor pulls off a daring rescue mission to uncover why telegraph riders were vanishing, leading to a grim discovery in the rugged depths of the Washington interior.
“The sight of the horse covered with foam brought them around him in an instant... the expressman told them the story of his ride for life and of the fate of the missing expressmen.”
Promoters rally behind an ambitious proposal to connect the Columbia River through a series of lakes and rivers, hoping to transform Washington's inland geography into a global shipping hub.
“With one-tenth of the water of the Columbia river it is proposed to make the finest ship canal in the world.”
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