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The Octopus

by Frank Norris

Wheat growers in nineteenth-century California resist when a railroad company attempts to take possession of their farms.

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Presley has already forgotten his watch. The distant train whistle reminds him—and you—that on this parched valley floor, rails and billboards are quietly redrawing the map. Climb on your bike and follow him into the dust; you'll smell wheat, worry, and the rumble of what's coming.

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