john richie, for instance, meets john brown. they become associates in this whole resistance to the efforts of the missouri institute to control the territory and promote and extend slavery. this house was -- i think this house -- we don't know exactly when it was built, but this house was built in that summer and fall of 1856. this wall, which is right behind me, is an example, i think, of the intense conflict that was going on. structurally, the wall does not do anything for holding the floors up or anything like that. but it's -- someone went to a lot of trouble to haul all that rock in here and put this wall in from the basement up to the ceiling here on the first floor. i think that it was built because ooh a need to reinforce the exterior walls because you've got these pro slavery people who have got cannons and they're running around you and