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Secession Sentiment. As the settler population doubled and doubled again, the rising ferocity of Indian resistance was not the only danger. Beyond the Indians to the southwest were the Spanish in New Orleans, the "stopper in the Mississippi bottle," blocking the only cheap export route. Behind the Indians to the northwest were the British, arming the tribes, pre-empting the fur trade, still holding Detroit and the other lake posts they had agreed in the peace treaty to give up. The feeble Continental Congress in Washington was weeks away by hard roads and not much interested in backing...
...clock on a hot, equatorial night, and the locals were living it up outside Passoni's Grocery Store on the potholed main drag of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Italian Settler Passoni, an enterprising sort, was raffling off boxes of groceries. Suddenly, a news bulletin from neighboring Kenya blared from a radio in a bar next door. An instant later, the guttural twitter that is the Somali tongue became an ominous muttering, and the crowd of 500 was on the rampage. Stoning cars, the Somalis marched to the British embassy, touching off three days of shouting, window-smashing riots...
...Argument Settler. In another momentous attempt to clear up misunderstandings, Nashville's Abingdon Press has published what may be the greatest argument settler since the Guinness Book of World Records - a four-volume, 4,000-page Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible...
...exception to this pattern of long calm and fitful bloodshed was the war on the western frontier, which began in 1776. From then until more than a decade after Cornwallis' surrender, not a day passed when any settler in western New York, the valley of Virginia or the wilderness drained by the Ohio could count himself safe. His enemies were not merely the British, fighting at first to put down rebellion and later to hold the Great Lakes fur trade, but also the Indians, fighting for vengeance and survival...
Blood & Starvation. In 1775, a year of lull before the years of Indian raids and counterraids began again, the average settler (perhaps, like Daniel Boone, a "long hunter" turned family man) lived in "a stump-dotted clearing of two or three acres in a one-room, earthen-floored cabin which had just taken the place of last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count...