Natural resources not just in terms of gold or copper or trees that can turn into paper but because of a grand expanse of beauty which involve photographers and enthralled many groups of people, not allowed to get to the west in that particular way. I could go on and on. There are certainly people i have known about like an dickenson before, a revelation to me in many places as well. I didnt know she existed when i wrote about Emily Dickinson and come came up, cant you get their name right . There is an dickenson, she is enormously important in history. When the abolitionists and her out like a canary in the moorings like pennsylvania coal miners to talk about anti Slavery Movement and republicans in a hostile environment, they sent her out. It worked okay so the rest of us will come out afterwards. Can you talk about coming from literature and writing history . Yes. I am intrigued that i am often introduced as a historian which is fine. I am very flattered. History writing, historians