The Timber Queen, ep. 12: The Abyss
Short Films
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16-Jul-1922
After the death of her lumberman father, Ruth Reading inherits one of the most valuable forests of the Far West. Her cousin, James Cluxton, hopes to exploit a strange provision of his uncle’s will to claim the forest for himself. In this episode, Ruth finds herself speeding to what could be an untimely grave on a runaway boxcar.
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