Bone Rattler (65 page)

These are the riddles that keep this period alive for me, and given the scarcity of direct answers in our chronicles, this may be a case where fiction can strike closer to the truth than history texts. Historians, after all, are handicapped by the fact that they can only celebrate the explorers who went into the wilderness and came back to speak of it. I, for one, have always been more interested in those explorers who went into the wilderness and decided not to return.

 

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