The Woodlawn farm is in western Wisconsin on the prairie; the Woodlawn family moves here from Boston. Harriet and John Woodlawn live here with their seven children. This is where much of the action in the book takes place.
The Woodlawns move to Wisconsin from Boston, Harriet's hometown. To Harriet, Boston represents civility and modernity, and it has been a great sacrifice for Harriet to leave Boston.
England is John Woodlawn's native country. He leaves England for America and has no desire to return to the country where he says there is no freedom for a man to become what he wants. England represents the past, and is a country that has long been set in its ways.
Indian John's tribe lives in a camp across the river from the Woodlawn.....
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