![]() ![]() A lot of Ice Age animals are still around, such as mammoths and giant beavers and dire wolves. For one thing, if prehistoric humans ever crossed the Baring Land Bridge, they must have all been killed by the wildlife, because there obviously weren’t any indigenous people when Columbia (the Americas) were discovered by Avropeans (Europeans). This is a fascinating world, with plenty of echoes of our world and many correspondences with our own history and with real historical figures, but at the same time a very different history. ![]() In this world, that expedition took place a few years ago, but Lewis and Clark disappeared somewhere out west, presumably killed by natural or magical wildlife, or possibly by weather or other misfortune. So, I just re-read the latter two books in Patricia Wrede’s Thirteenth Daughter trilogy – Across the Great Barrier and The Far West – which as you may recall is set in an alternate-history world around the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ![]()
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