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  • The shuttles are named Cannon Ball, Thunder Bird, Battle Bolt, and War Eagle, I am told, after the advertising cars used by the now extinct RB&BB Show.

    City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980

  • Wall-Eyes Oscar, manager of the Cannon Ball, held up a hand, then dropped it on the table.

    City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980

  • Solar System, and a Cannon Ball would be so many Thousand Years in running there.

    John Adams diary 44, 27 March - 21 July 1786 1961

  • In Orchard 16 varieties in this group include Cannon Ball, Duke of

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934

  • At the precise time that Daniel Pratt was entering Cheyenne County from the East, a Mexican sheepman was moving toward the Cannon Ball from the

    The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900

  • As day advanced men came riding in from the Cannon Ball and from far below on the Big Sandy, and under Jennison's leadership the wires of the

    The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900

  • At last, late in July, the mouth of the Cannon Ball was reached.

    The Eagle's Heart Hamlin Garland 1900

  • After many misadventures among the countless deceiving channels and bars of the river, and after locating the several Indian villages of the past and of to-day -- the Rees, the Sioux bands, the Cheyennes -- they did at last cross the North Dakota line at the Standing Rock agency, did pass the mouths of the Cannon Ball and Heart Rivers, and raise the smokes of

    The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890

  • She smoked Pall Mall and chewed Cannon Ball tobacco.

    A Perfect Fit Luther Wright 2010

  • Urban Painter William Wray: SLO PA Paint out and Cannon Ball

    SLO PA Paint out and Cannon Ball william wray 2007

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