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The walls, the roof joists, the cedar shingles, the door frame and window frames, all of it went up in 3 weeks of hard work and fell within the range of what the settlement considered acceptable frontier construction.

Then the men left and Sig began building the wall. The hauling alone took 10 days. … The walls, the roof joists, the cedar shingles, the door frame and window frames, all of it went up in 3 weeks of hard work and fell within the range of what the settlement considered acceptable frontier construction.Read more

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She did not explain. The cabin went up in September with help from several of the men in the settlement who understood log work and gave their time according to the custom of the community.

The walls, the roof joists, the cedar shingles, the door frame and window frames, all of … She did not explain. The cabin went up in September with help from several of the men in the settlement who understood log work and gave their time according to the custom of the community.Read more

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They saw a woman in her early 40s moving slowly along a shallow creek bed, bending to pick up stones, turning them over, tapping them with a smaller stone and tilting her head to listen to the sound.

Every few minutes she set a stone to one side or the other. The one she … They saw a woman in her early 40s moving slowly along a shallow creek bed, bending to pick up stones, turning them over, tapping them with a smaller stone and tilting her head to listen to the sound.Read more