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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: numerous fights or by the backwoods scourge of small-pox, compact,
muscular, fearless, loyal, cynically aloof from those not of their
cult, out-spoken and free to criticise--in short, men to do great
things under the strong leader, and to mutiny at the end of three
days under the weak. They piled off the train at Sawyer's, stamped
their feet on the board platform of the station, shouldered their
"turkeys," and straggled off down the tote-road. It was an
eighteen-mile walk in. The ground had loosened its frost. The
footing was ankle-deep in mud and snow-water.
Next morning, bright and early, the breaking of the rollways began.
During the winter the logs had been hauled down ice roads to the
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