TELL CITY, Ind. (AP) — The researchers working on the German Ridge Heritage Project in the Hoosier National Forest have coined a phrase to describe the frontier settlement there: “living on the edge.”

It describes the hardscrabble life that German immigrants carved out of the woods north of the more prosperous, commerce-friendly river towns along the Ohio River.

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