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Thompson’s Western Tales Reviewed on Writers In the Sky
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1943 Floodstage: “Me & My Brother,” by Erwin A. Thompson
After Ruth and I unloaded and settled in at home, I prepared to fix the road. It was a hopeful venture. I was trying to use the trailer to haul the rock. I must have also quarried the rock. But disaster struck again. I got stuck! Down on the Upper Bottom Road. There was no…