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When the Earthquakes Spoke is a fast moving novel of pioneers and settlers struggling to open up the southern part of the Illinois Territory in the early 1800s, when disaster struck their world in the forms of a series of earthquakes. The setting is basically in an area surrounded by the Wabash, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.The effect of the earthquakes of 1811-1812 on the lives of freedom-seeking farmers, trappers, squatters, titled land holders, miscreants, dissatisfied taxpayers, business people, and the newly-trained American soldier, is vividly described.Although the book contains bloodshed, dark secrets, light romance, ingrained bitterness, entrepreneurship, bonding, trust and distrust, it is light and easy reading.
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