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| | HOW PAT BURNS, CALGARY CATTLEMAN, PUT THE PINE RIVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Considering that one could count the white men who trapped there almost on one hand, and that there was no road to speak of beyond Dunvegan, and that they all measured their piece from a post planted at the mouth of "Fable Creek", it was a triple or quadruple coincidence. |
 | | Ivor Johnson gave a hint of the solution to the question -- he said that Pat Burns was reputed to have paid for the survey himself, with the intention of leasing from the applicants. |
 | | On the advice of their friend Pat, they moved in with their family to ranch and trap, knowing well that it entailed breaking the flats, sowing oats and barley for feed, and cutting and stacking the grass that clothed the river flats. |
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