spoiler for pages 87 and 212 connections to M&D

[Jordan Fink]

On page 87. We learn that the Traverse family had been "an old
ridegerunning caln from southern Pennsylvania, close to the Mason-Dixon.
The Civil War, which ate up a good part of Wbb's boyhood, split the family
as well, so that shortly before it was over, he found himself in the back
of a agon heading west..."

I searched through all of M&D and didn't find any Traverses who had met
the exporers, but it's obvious that there were there and that the Traverse
family are victim's of the Line's bad Feng Shui. So interesting, then to
see the link between the Line, Colarado Anarchism, and the Labor movemnet
in California.

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On page 212 we see the Marshal of Jeshimon, Wes Grimsford.

The Rev. of the town says:
"'notice anything in particular?...Observe the star Wes is wearing.'...It
was a five-pointed star, nickel-plated, like they tended to war, except
that it was on upside down. 'Whith the two points up-that's the horns of
the Devil, and signifies that Elderly Gent and his works.'"

for those unfamiliar with Mason and Dixon: The upside star is a symbol in
that work for two things: 1. when M&D are trying to find true north, they
look at starts in their telescope at measure when they reach the peak of
their arc arcoss the sky. In the telescope the star is upside down. Thus,
upside down star symbolize points which cut through distortion. 2. The
star is seen again and again on rifles of both Dutch and American design.
They pop up around slavery, a massacre, and an Iron refinery used for
making impliments of slavery and war. The rifle is much like a telescope,
but differs in that it shoots lead rather then huge sweaping cuts across
the landscape. But they are both acts that are branded by evil.