FICTION PILLAR
Category: Daily Life
wilderness survival, primitive infrastructure, timber clearing, predators, untamed settings
When we last left Comfort (in Welcome to Indiana Territory), she had just disembarked from a flatboat in company with her guide, Alexander Potins, and was headed north on the Red Banks Trail towards her father’s homestead, when they met with danger.
When I try to imagine traveling to Indiana Territory, the first thing I see is one of those big signs we have today at state lines: Welcome to Indiana Territory. Of course, there were no signs. No advertisements “Come live in Indiana Territory.” No real estate agents (at least not in today’s sense of the […]
Apparently, living underground is not just for prairie dogs. Seriously… people did it, too. I’m not talking cave people; no, these were early settlers. Specifically, early Nebraska settlers. And luckily for Rose, one of them squatted on what is now her farm.
