dovetailers

Updated: May 18, 2025

The residents were considered "scrubs" or "riff-raff" by those whose superior axemanship had provided the more neatly finished dwelling. A later division crept in among the "dovetailers" themselves when a brickyard was opened. The more prosperous settlers put up neat little brick houses.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned