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Excerpt from Snap: The Ox-Train Era; Early Troubles of Border Trade
ON the high bank of a Western river, far out among savage haunts, stood a cabin post, the lonely mart Of a rude trade.
In an outlook raised on the roof, not unlike the pilot house of a steamboat, sat the trader, who suddenly spoke aloud.
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