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This story continues a tale told over five decades, and brings it to the end of the road. The time, 1888, the place the State of Minnesota, joined to the union nigh thirty years. The word comes from Dakota language mn sta, blue water. It was wild land with cold clime, made up for by an abundance of natural resources. In the west lie expansive, prairie grassland, to the north a great lake, and in the southeast deciduous forests as far as the eye could see. The state was divided by the course of the Mississippi. That word comes from a French pronunciation of the Ojibwe Misi-ziibi meaning Great River. The land had plenty of game for hunters and trappers. In addition, throughout the state, were hundreds of bodies of fresh water teeming with life; could about throw a rock and hit a fish. Thus was Minnesota highly inviting, first to native peoples, then to European trappers and traders, then to settlers, speculators, and government alike. A stranger came to those parts, a man who once was great but now was wretched. A pony express rider as a boy, a decorated soldier in the Civil War, and then a lawman in Kansas. He was a loving husband and father. Damn if he didn't lose it all. Nowadays, this man lives alone and lonely, a danger to himself and others. It was the darkest time in the life of a once great man, Thomas Jefferson Powell.

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Matt Cutugno was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for over thirty years. He's a graduate of Penn State University and earned a Master's Degree in Theater Arts from Florida State. His plays were produced in New York, L.A., and in regional theaters. He has travelled extensively in China as an English teacher and visiting scholar. He is retired and living in California, where he teaches in the local school district.

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