J. H. Beadle
Published: 2017-12-08
Total Pages: 632
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Excerpt from Western Wilds, and the Men Who Redeem Them: An Authentic Narrative The rolling prairies of Iowa were taking on their richest summer hues when I crossed from Prairie du Chien to mcgregor, the first Of June, 1868, and entered upon a three hundred mile walk across the Stat-e.' The Land Of the Sleepy, as the aboriginal name implies, was just then the. Land Of men particularly wide awake to their own inter ests. I was but one Of a grand army ever pushing westward - active, aggressive, and defiant Of space and time. Iowa combined the advan tages of both East and West, andmen of all N orth-european races were crowding to possess it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.