Josh Miller had come to the valley about the same time as Moses Foster and his family, but he had no plans of homesteading. Instead, he had carved a soddy out of the cutbank of the river, and shortly, opened a store. Miller was the closest supplier of flour, and calico and nails to the homesteaders in the mountains. Sett remembered making the trip with his father to the sparse post. They would eat at Miller's table, amply fortified by Abigail Miller's biscuits, then Sett would wander off to look at the horses with Josh's son Poke while the men would discuss business. The single sod cabin had been expanded to two, and Miller's post had survived as the community store where the nearest customer rode over an hour to get there.

SETTLER'S LAW, page 43