The_Boarded_Window
The Boarded Window
1891 short story by Ambrose Bierce
"The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer" is a short story by American Civil War soldier and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891, and was reprinted the same year in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.[1] The setting for the story is the part of Ohio where Bierce's family lived until 1846.[2]