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The Piggly Wiggly Capers (excerpt) "There she is" Ty McLeod eyes the 10th street Piggly Wiggly. Its doors open wide like a bumpkin´s barn ... " just begging to get robbed" he mumbles. Sitting behind the wheel of his Model T open cab pick up, chewing a fresh wad of "Bull Durham Tabac" , he...

KIOWA OIL and GAS LTD. Kiowa Oil and Gas Ltd. , formed in 1925 and struck gas in 1926. Kiowa´s oil discovery stimulated renewed interest in the Watchatee Valley field. In 1927 a pipeline was built to connect Big Indian Valley to Smokey River. In the 1920s Big Indian Valley became known as...

Last Princess of the Swan River Cree (excerpt) Sprinting across the prairie was always easy for Snowbird. Her long legs never failed to fling her farther and faster across the grassy plains of her home ; the Swan River Indian Village. She imagined she was a mighty Cree warrior of the old...

1921 Ford Roundabout The summer of ´26 found Ty McLeod both discharged from the Army and running from the mafia gangs of the East. So, he was given an ultimatum : ride West or die. He read in the "Dearborn Independent" (Henry Ford´s newspaper) that driven by the growth of the automobile...

Chico Cortez : An American Afterthought The Mexican desert sun slowly burns the "Coyote" smuggler lying in the sand. The agonizing man tries to hold his spilling guts in as he presses his hands against his blood soaked jacket. Standing next to him, a young mexican : Chico Cortez. Gripping a...