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Elias McCorkle

Elias McCorkle is recorded in 1 distinct story.

A farmer who planted the surviving posts in 1905; this is narrative history explaining the trail Trisha follows.

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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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With that in mind, Trisha began following the few remaining posts of those planted by a farmer named Elias McCorkle in the year 1905; these marked the wood-drag trail he had made as a young man, before the drink got him and he lost his ambition.

The farmer and his construction of the wood-drag trail in 1905 are explicit.