These essays, an ever-increasing collection of portraits of the hundred or so people interviewed in the hollows and around the edges of House Mountain, including scientists and archaeologists, newcomers and original 18th century European families, present a sense of how the mountain has evolved in its c. 4.5 billion year geologic journey, and, too, how life here has progressed from the advent of the earliest human presence to the area some 18,000 years ago through the concentrated influx of mostly Scots Irish and German immigrants in the early 18^th century, many of whose descendants are still tucked up in the mountain’s folds and valleys, on what was, only 188 years ago, the very western frontier of the United States of America.   -Sarah Clayton

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