The Trail of the Fox

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The Trail of the Fox

                                                                                                            by Mark W. Laughlin

"...Ach walked out onto the skins.  He walked to the girl and placed the necklace around her neck.  He held out his hand.  Slowly, just as embarrassed as Ach was, she took his hand. As they walked back to the edge of the skins, the deal was done.  Ach had taken a wife..."

The Trail of the Fox

Ach and the Rock People represent a group of Paleo-Indians, living about 2,000 years ago, in what would later become the Southwestern United States.  Home base for this fictional group of people is the Pecos River Valley, just north of Pecos, New Mexico.  Not much is known about the people of this region in that period, so this fictional account imagines what their lives might have been like, dealing with raiders, winter cold and the other dangers of their time.  The point of it all, is to illustrate that even though they lived a long time ago, in conditions very different than we do, they were, after all, people, human beings, much like us.

-       Mark W. Laughlin

Learn more about Trail of the Fox at:

http://writtenpost.blogspot.com/p/trail-of-fox-introduction.html

About the Author

 Mark W. Laughlin lives in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. 

A long-time connection with history, an appreciation of Native American peoples and time spent traveling in the Southwestern United States have combined to inspire The Trail of the Fox, a tale of how people might have lived, just about the time the bow and arrow came into use in the Americas, long before the gun, the horse and Europeans arrived.

The Trail of the Fox was first published on the author’s blog site at: http://writtenpost.blogspot.com. 

Visit the site to see photographs and other writings and observations by the author and by contributing  WrittenPost Friends.

E-Mail: mlaugh1931@aol.com