Frontier Footprints: A True History of the Rocky Mountains by Amy Kathryn Allen

Previously

…“Aye,” Liam agreed, his gaze fixed on the dancing flames. “This land… it’s a stubborn mistress, but a fair one, if you treat her right. My Mary, she’s got a way with the garden. Comes winter, we’ll have enough preserves to see us through. And the little ones, they’re learning to ride before they can walk, practically.” He chuckled, a deep, rumbling sound. But not all stories of settlement were so harmonious. The very act of claiming land, of drawing lines on a map where none had existed before, inevitably led to friction. There were disputes over water rights, over grazing lands, over boundaries that seemed to shift with every