The two races fought intermittently for a thousand years. To defend themselves against the Lamanites, the Nephites finally erected “small forts, or places of resort; throwing up banks of earth round about” with “timbers built up to the height of a man, round about the cities ... a frame of pickets built upon the timbers.” This kind of description must have sounded familiar to Emma, for western New York was famous for its palisaded Indian forts, one chain running fifty miles from Cat- taragus Creek to the Pennsylvania border.
