[alexander_busek]

I’ve watched travel documentaries where some jeep comes over a hill and here is an enormous valley, with a 40-person village down in the middle of it....no paved road, just gravel leading in and out. It’d be a four-hour drive to reach anything that you’d consider even half-civilized. You could move a thousand people into that valley tomorrow, but then what? There’s no work, no jobs, and no future over [sic; "other"?] than tending to 200 head of cattle, and tending to your garden.

You have just accurately described most of America as it was in the mid-19th century.

Regards,

[volunbeer]

@27

My thought also....

Prior to habitation and infrastructure development much of North America may have been similarly described. There is no doubt that extreme cold and permafrost makes a conventional life more difficult, but certainly not impossible.