When the Legends Die | Setting
Throughout When the Legends Die, setting is a very important factor in how the main character, Tom (the name he eventually settles on when he becomes an adult), behaves. At the age of five, he lives with his father and mother in a house supplied by a lumber mill. His father, George Black Bull, is a wage slave, whose job is the now-illegal practice of forcing employees to make purchases on credit from company stores and then forcing them to work until the debt is paid, which never happens because the debt always increases. It is 1910, and the Utes are only a generation away from an...
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