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Date Posted: 12:39:13 11/10/02 Sun
Author: Rattletrap
Subject: Re: Farther out on the Fringe
In reply to: Philistine 's message, "Re: Farther out on the Fringe" on 18:13:30 11/09/02 Sat

Historical note:
The area in Eastern Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas was, for these purposes, the limit of the western frontier during the 1860s.

*tedious explanation alert*
Most of the Anglo settlement farther west was in the mountains and on the Pacific coast. Between about the 98th* or 99th meridian and the Rockies the Plains Indians (usually Comanche and Kiowa in the south, Cheyenne and Sioux in the north) held the balance of power. There were a few Anglo settlements in this area in the years before the war, but the war led to a lack of military presence to protect the settlers and most had to abandon. The period of sustained settlement in the Western plains begins with the completion of transcontinental railroads during the late 1860s and 1870s and was fueled by the completion of cattle traffic railroads like the Fort Worth & Denver during the 1870s that linked cattle producers with trading centers.

During the Civil War, most of the mountain territories remained relatively unaffected by the events to the east. Firefly seems, to me, to be set in an area that experienced some of the ravages of war, like Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas did.

*end tedious explanation*

Just my $.02

'trap

* 98th Meridian = roughly the present day site of I-35, to give the measurement in a slightly more accessible unit.

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