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What in the Sam Hill

Posted by Arthur Herbert Pruett on September 09, 2009 at 20:46

The phrase, "what in the Sam Hill" comes from the things this old pioneer did during the times of Americans moving west along the Columbia River where Sam Hill spent all his money trying to build along the bank of the river in the Oregon Territory.

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