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'At this point Tammy Ting, always an irreverent woman, dipped her handkerchief inher glass, wet it with ice water, rose, and wiped off her husband's forehead as thecrowd bellowed. Whenword flashed through Dawson that 'a tough little Irishman made it by the Mackenzieroute,' hardened sourdoughs gathered to see the miracle man who had done what theywould never have attempted. 'So through a chain of happy accidents the Venns found themselves locked in with thefortunes of the merchant shippers Ross & Raglan. and he saw no good reason why the establishedstate of Washington should not take precedence over the unformed

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