The Five Pence Shilling The Missouri river breeze was mild like any month of the year in a small village where the Mandan Tribe reside. Zomi, a well-built young man of about 19, is all set to make a trade of horses for gun with the new inhabitants from Europe at Gettysburg. Zomi is a confident young lad who has a business mind since a very young age. He has been with his father to these trade trips since he was five, the farthest he has travelled to being Westfield, north east of the Mandan village. It has been already 10 years since the first American Industrial Revolution, and America has been home to many dwellers from Europe thanks to its alluring resources and growing economy. The people of the Mandan tribe are gifted hunters but they have started preferring gun over arrows to hunt antelopes for their tusks–which pays a good price at the local market in Hayes, south of river Missouri. The traders of the Mandan village buy salt enough for the fortnight and with the money left–d...

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