What is the setting in The Boarded Window?no

The first two paragraphs of the story include quite a bit
of detail about the setting, including information about the time period, geographic
location, and description of the actual house with the boarded
window.

In
1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an
immense and almost unbroken forest.  The whole region was sparsely settle by people of
the frontier...He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great
forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part...There were evidences of
"improvement"-- a few acres of ground immediately about the house had once been cleared
of trees, the decayed stumps of which were half concealed by the new growth that had
been suffered to repair the ravage wrought by the ax...

The
little log house, with its chimney of sticks, its roof of warping clapboards weighted
with traversing poles and its chinking of clay, had a single door and, directly
opposite, a window.  The latter, however, was boarded up--nobody could remember a time
when it was not.

Of course,
this passage also includes description of the main character,
Murlock.