Word: lode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband, who sinks it in a wildcat gold mine. There is a murder, a bank robbery, Ann's husband deserts her, her father is arrested. The scene shifts to a Western desert: Pierre is hotfoot on the missing husband's trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain!) is discovered . . . there is not enough water for two . . . another murder. In the sheriff's office at Red Butte, Pierre, given up for dead (no man could get through Skeleton Sink alive) stumbles in to confront the sheriff, Ann and old Tony. He dies with a nobly...