About This Story: The Dunlap Family Saga began as genealogical research into my own family history. What I found was a story that demanded to be told — not as a dry historical record, but as a living narrative of survival, ambition, and the choices that echo across generations.
Samuel Dunlap is a fictional character, but his world is real. The trading posts, the political upheavals, the brutal winters, and the shifting alliances between empires — all of this happened. I've tried to honor that history while telling a story that resonates with the present.
This is fiction grounded in fact. Where the historical record is silent, imagination fills the gaps. Where it speaks, I've listened carefully.
A Reader's Companion. Characters, historical annotations, timeline, maps, and a glossary of the frontier—all drawn from the margins of Samuel's ledger. Entries in plain ink and invisible hand.
Start with the Prologue — an extract from the historical record that sets the stage for Samuel's story.
Read the PrologueThis story is free to read. If it moves you, consider supporting the work so more stories can be told.
"Where our roots are deep and wide, whether by blood or by choice."
