Oh, yyup. I knew I probably messed up somewhere writing that late. I didn't take the timespan since the eruption into account when making Chambers. I'll change his character a bit to fit in. I'll just edit him into being a local sheriff. 

I read up some on it, and saw that there was a lot of logging. That was the goal of the original expansion West, to acquire desperately needed farmland. I figure hunting, fishing, and what little farming they could get done would have had them just barely scraping by, but that they would want to get some actual arable land, in order to be able to get a surplus. 

I'll try to edit a bit more clarity into the app, just so it's a bit easier to follow.