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"Train loads of ex-convicts and gamblers poured into Laramie: the railroad stopped there, you see. It was sort of tough on Laramie."
"I take it that Laramie attended to its uninvited guests? "
"It had to. And once the citizens started shooting, you'd be surprised how the lawbreakers faded out. "

“He was a refugee, you see, from Bela Kun …The Communist,” Mrs. Peel went on. “Jackson’s father was a farmer. Although I don’t quite understand how Communists will go around shooting farmers who disagree with them, and then blame famines on countries that don’t shoot their farmers.”
Mrs. Gunn said it seemed kind of unreasonable to her, at that.