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Chapter One

• Sixteen year old Katherine Mary O'Fallon is travelling from Boston, Massachusetts, to Calgary, Alberta.

• She sneaked Juno, her cocker spaniel puppy, into the passenger coach with her.

• Katherine is going to stay with her Uncle John for an extended visit.

• Katherine's doctor's recommended she go to Alberta for her health. The dry, cold winter may help her pleurisy.

• The weather is bad. A winter storm is slowing her journey.

• Katherine thinks about the home she has left behind and a blind woman who boarded with Katherine's family.

• Katherine cries while eating cookies her mother made for her.

• Katherine meets her uncle and grows comfortable listening to his stories.

• Uncle John tells Katherine about the Chinook winds. The great amounts of snow will melt and cause flooding.

• Katherine learns that many cattle have died due to the flooding.

Chapters Two through Four

• Katherine meets Johnny Flaherty, Uncle...

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