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“Let me tell you, the land is full and fruitful. It’s also a howlin’ wilderness full of savages and beast of all kinds,” John explained, waving his arms here and there. “I’ve seen buffalo herds at salt licks that could not be counted, for the good Lord didn’t create numbers to count that high. There…

In last season’s “Outlander” (the television series), Jamie and Claire briefly mentioned settling near or on a line established as the dividing line between the westernmost settlers and Native Americans. The show never presented its viewers with more information about this “line in the sand” or in this case the mountains. As I had recently…