In mid-January, the high country was covered with snow, three feet in places. Frontier docs like Elijah Baines had seen similar cases, but not as sad as this one. Before him sat the 68-year-old trapper, loudly breathing, while waiting in anticipation for the Doc’s diagnosis. “Ol’ Scratch,” they called him. No one, not even “Scratch” knew why. Doc Baines had been asked to come to Scratch’
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