The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.
Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.