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Shawnee, Ohio. (A Native American nation formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio Valleys, with modern-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley by the end of the 1700s and early as the 1800s.

Shawnee, Ohio, tranquil and antique, one would not recognize that it as the twentieth century, the present.
The aging, yet fit, Henry Gandy commenced his morning as usual with a lite breakfast, a steaming mug of strong black coffee laced with a good dose of boubon whiskey, then a fetch for his hiking stick and an embarkation for his dense woods. Moreover, this particular morning was singularly thrilling, in that Mr Gandy had just successfully
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(A Native American nation formerly inhabiting parts of the Cumberland and central Ohio Valleys, with modern-day populations in Oklahoma. The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley by the end of the 1700s and early as the 1800s.

Shawnee, Ohio, tranquil and antique, one would not recognize that it was the twentieth century, the present.
The aging, yet fit, Henry Gandy commenced his morning as usual with a lite breakfast, a steaming mug of strong black coffee, laced with a good dose of boubon whiskey, then a fetch for his hiking stick and an embarkation for the dense woods. This particular morning was singularly thrilling, in that Mr Gandy had just successfully recouperated from a bout of a winter's flu. Thus, having been given the Okay from his personal physician, he had longed for six whole weeks to be back in his rut, and a tramp through his beloved woods along the banks of the ancient Shawnee.
And so it was, as he merrily traversed, his head abounding of great reflections and thankfulness, that he tumbled upon a strange new path he never spied before.

'Perhaps it was tramped in my absence?' he thought.

Nevertheless, it seemed as old as all the others he knew so

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