Do you people get that way from living here, or were you all peculiar to start with? someone once asked Louise Dickinson Rich. In her early thirties, she took t

Trans-Allegheny Pioneers is, without a doubt, one of the most celebrated accounts of life on the Virginia frontier ever written. The author's focal point is the

Essays that originally appeared in Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine.

"Do you people get that way from living here, or were you all peculiar to start with?" a visitor once asked Louise Dickinson Rich. Even after 15 years in the fo