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THE BLUE BASIN COUNTRY

LAURAN PAINE

A Black Horse Western

ROBERT HALE LONDON

Lauran Paine 1987 First published in Great Britain 1989

ISBN 0 7090 3482 2

Robert Hale Limited Clerkenwell House Clerkenwell Green London EC

Photoset in North Wales by Derek Doyle & Associates, Mold, Clwyd.

Printed in Great Britain by

WBC Print Ltd." Barton Manor, Bristol.

Bound by WBC Bookbinders Limited.

ONE

The boundaries of the Blue Basin country were vaguely defined, as
calculations made by eye often are. The Army Engineers who had passed
through years earlier surveying and mapping had missed it entirely. The
entire region could not possibly be surveyed, so the conclusion was to
only chart and map areas which were seemingly important.

The Blue Basin country had been insular even back then. Towns emerged
slowly without planning, ordinarily as wattle-roofed low buildings with
log walls. They began as points of rendezvous for trappers, hunters,
soldiers. Later they expanded to accommodate the traffic of roadways
used by wagons, coaches, pack-trains, horseback men