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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "Who is this big man coming from the the fort?" asked Joe, suddenly observing
a stalwart frontiersman approaching.
"Major Sam McColloch. You have met him. He's the man who jumped his horse from
yonder bluff."
"Jonathan and he have the same look, the same swing," observed Joe, as he ran
his eye over the major. His faded buckskin costume, beaded, fringed, and
laced, was similar to that of the colonel's brother. Powder-flask and
bullet-pouch were made from cow-horns and slung around his neck on deerhide
strings. The hunting coat was unlaced, exposing, under the long, fringed
borders, a tunic of the same well-tanned, but finer and softer, material. As
he walked, the flaps of his coat fell back, showing a belt containing two
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