RE: No Cavalry in Sight

People in the past were built of sterner stuff, it seems to me. We still have many people like that around but society has changed so much. A couple of centuries ago about 95% of people were involved in agriculture (a hard job) in the US, and now it's less than 2%. Office work doesn't require the same toughness as having to wake up in the middle of a freezing night in winter to help a cow give birth or check traps in a dangerous dark forest. Then there was the danger from other fellow men. So, it was hard living in those times. I freak out when a lightbulb goes out, so I'd probably wouldn't do so well in the frontier. Heh.