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Inexplicable Frank: Frank has it tough.
In late January of 1913 Frank wrote his family in Indiana that he was making progress but since last summer he had been short of breath...
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Inexplicable Frank: Frank and George get Horses.
In 1912 Frank wrote to his brother Scott in Indiana that Winter had been temporary postponed by a splendid Fall. Frank had got his house...
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Inexplicable Frank: Part 3 of a Pioneer Story
Frank and his son George lived eight miles south of Stratton, Ontario and on the way to their homesteads there were miles of muskeg and...
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Inexplicable Frank: Part 2 of a Pioneer Story
Born in 1854 “Inexplicable Frank” arrived in Int’l. Falls in April of 1912 where he joined his 19 year old son George who had drifted to...
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Inexplicable Frank: A Pioneer Story
It takes some musing and gauzy imagination to come to a realization that where we live was once one of America’s last frontiers, yeah...