Card draws upon history and historical fiction for details of frontier life in the early nineteenth century, so that even though the novel is a fantasy, the portrait of daily life has the feel of authenticity. The culture and crafts, the buildings and the local characters are right. Card offers glimpses of village life, the work of a smith, of a water finder, a hotel.....
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