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Show The intended audience and type of magazine wouLd be for men and women age L8 through 60 in a general interest or western fact history magazine. THE FLOUR THAT TRAVELED FOR DOUGH I Reuei C. Gridiey was, in the year 1864, about as impetuous a Secesh as you couid find in the whoie West. A southern sympathizer by Conscience out of Circumstances, he claimed Missouri as his birth pLace; and for that reason, some peopLe claimed the saying 'stubborn as a Missouri mule,' was a greenhorn Easterner's twisted translation of, 'as stubborn as a Missouri Reuel.' Austin, Nevada, where Gridiey owned a store that pruned everything from the miner but the goLd in the ground, was, in that same year, suffering from an acute attack of overpopuiation; it was, in fact, the boomin'est of aLL the boom towns in Nevada with a permanent population of 50 and a fLoating popuiation of 10,000. Gridiey was extremely happy with this situation; not oniy |