What if North America today was divided up the way the original colonial powers had settled it. With the English all along the Atlantic coast. The French down the middle along the Mississippi watershed. The Spanish in the west all along the Pacifi...
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Afterword
Prologue: The Five Nations of North America
Ever wonder what would happen if what happened didn't happen?
I mean if North America today was divided up vertically along the original boundaries. With the English all along the Atlantic coast. The French down the middle along the Mississippi watershed. The Spanish in the west all along the Pacific. And Canada and Mexico would still hold forth in the north and south of North America.
Well Jason Wolfe will become a practitioner of what we call Alternative History. In his take on history, all of the dates, and almost all of the names of key people, events, and locations are real, and part of the recorded history. Most of the events actually happened. But in his Alternative History, the outcome is quite different. The victors become the losers. The losers become the victors. So, in the end it is fiction - but it could have happened this way. And imagine if it did!
Introduction: Jason Wolfe
JASON: My name is Jason Wolfe. I am a history major from the University of North Carolina. I liked University life, and the studies as well, but I knew long before graduation that I did not want to teach. In that regard I was one of the fortunate ones, I knew what I did not want to do for a career as opposed to the ones who graduated only to drift on afterword. I was the one who also knew what he wanted to do. I wanted to write.
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Of course the high water mark for writers is the novel. But I was aware that I did not have the work ethic, patience, or the talent to write a novel; mostly the talent was missing. Short stories or articles would be my calling and that is why I find myself working as a columnist for the Charlotte Herald.
My University studies in history have stayed with me as a nagging interest over the years. Maybe that is what set me up to attempt to explore the making of North America. It would be presented in a series of interviews. The key would be to find the right people to interview. They would tell the story, their story, as they understood it. And I would be the facilitator, the interviewer who would push the narrative along.
