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| Year | Stories |
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| 1891 | 2 |
2 stories matching need
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- A Friday Harbor Citizen Tells a Rival Editor to Pack His Bags and Go
When the San Juan Graphic blamed saloons for driving settlers to Orcas Island, a letter-writer fired back: if the moral air is so pure over there, why not start your paper there—we'll see you off with a band.
- The Parson, the Woodpile, and the Five-Dollar Hat
A skeptical rancher bets the new minister he can't buck two giant butts of firewood before dark. He shouldn't have doubted a frontier preacher.