Setting the scene…
Interactive story
The First Trappers and the Founding of Malad Valley : Fort Stuart. Written By Amy Kathryn Allen
Between the years of 1818 -1821 A group of French Canadian Trappers led bya Scottish Canadian Fur Trader named Douglas McKenzie arrived in what is now Malad Valley. Malad Valley was an untamed vast wilderness drought with disease, bitterly…
Play the first scenes free. No sign-up.
Previously
…He felt the weight of his people’s future pressing down on him. He had underestimated McKenzie, his cunning, his men’s tenacity. But he would not make that mistake again. The uneasy calm was a deceptive lull, a moment to gather strength, to plan. He would not let these strangers claim his ancestral lands without a further, and perhaps final, reckoning. He turned, his shadow stretching long and distorted on the moonlit ground, and disappeared back into the embrace of the wilderness, the unspoken promise of future conflict a chilling echo in the silent valley. The breath of uneasy calm had been drawn, but the storm was far from over.