The Scarlet Plague in Bloomington, MN

The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, [1] has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip. His grandsons are "savage" and live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world.