Status Updates From The Frontiersmen: A Narrative

Land so fertile a bean grow like a tree and the grass tickles your belly when you walk. And game Buffalo so many they shake the ground enough to jar your teeth. Deer, too by the thousands, and elk. You ever seen an elk? Big deer, they are, big enough that one of them would feed your house for a month or more. …birds so plentiful they make night out of day... Takes hours, sometimes days, for them to fly by…

As he had done on occasion ever since childhood, the Shawnee chief Pucksinwah contemplated the multitude of stars sparkling with such life and beauty in the deep cloudless and moonless sky.Now that the fire had died to a dim-orange bed of coals and the women squatted around it had lapsed into uncommon silence, these jewels of the night seemed to draw even closer and become more tangible, as if waiting to be plucked.