In this, our next-to-last episode, we get ‘meta’ and look at the story of the ‘Paxtons and Conestoga’ as just that—a story. We also examine how that story has been retold, manipulated, appropriated, and occasionally fabricated over nearly 300 years in print, prose, movies, television, and, best of all, graphic novels.

As a bonus, we—my contributors and I—get to show our homework: how we came to this story, what we did with it, and why.