MDDM Ch. 70 Interdiction

[Monte Davis]

jbor wrote:

>I think what upsets or frightens the Native Americans (or, at least, what
the narrator, or Dixon, infer) is the Visto, the absence of trees. The
"invisible Thing" is the Visto, as if it was a living entity.

Ian Frazier, _Family_, on settlers moving from the seaboard colonies to
western Pennsylvania and Ohio:

"When they went West, what they found on the other side of the mountains,
mainly, was trees... Emigrants rode through unbroken forests for days on
end... They called the tree-coverted expanses wastes and the occasional
sunlit openings oases... A view extending two hundred yards was rare enough
to draw comment. When travelers came out into an opening where they could
see sky and clouds and distance, they rejoiced. "

It's the vision thing.