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Happily Tom McKay solved that. Like a centaur he rode up and down the prairie. In French, in English, in Chinook he gathered them in: "Pierre, Francois, Antoine, come, come to the war! "

The snow proved too deep to get word over the Sierras to California. Shut in, Oregon must fight her way alone.