The way to the West, and the lives of three early Americans, Boone--Crockett--Carson . hat more ofstaidness and sobriety. This man had so used theax that he had a farm, and on this farm he raisedmore than he himself could use—first step in thegreat future of the West as storehouse for the extra produce could certainly not be taken backover the Alleghanies, nor could it be traded on thespot for aught else than merely similar commodities. Here, then, was a turning-point in Western his-tory. There is no need to assign to it an exact have the pleasant fashion of learning history
The way to the West, and the lives of three early Americans, Boone--Crockett--Carson . hat more ofstaidness and sobriety. This man had so used theax that he had a farm, and on this farm he raisedmore than he himself could use—first step in thegreat future of the West as storehouse for the extra produce could certainly not be taken backover the Alleghanies, nor could it be traded on thespot for aught else than merely similar commodities. Here, then, was a turning-point in Western his-tory. There is no need to assign to it an exact have the pleasant fashion of learning historythrough dates of battles and assassinations. Wemight do better in some cases did we learn the timeof certain great and significant happenings. It was an important time when this first Westernfarmer, somewhat shorn of fringe, sought to findmarket for his crude produce, and found that thepack-horse would not serve him so well as the broad-horned flat-boat that supplanted his canoe. Theflat-boat ran altogether down-stream. Hence it ledaltogether away from home and from the East, The. MISSISSIPPI, INDEPEXDE^^CE G7 Western man was relying upon himself, cutting loosefrom traditions, asking help of no man; sacrificing,perhaps, a little of sentiment, but doing so out ofnecessit}^ and only because of the one great fact thatthe waters would not run back npliill, would notcarry him back to the East that was once his home. So the homes and the graves in the West grew, andthere arose a civilization distinct and different fromthat which kept hold upon the sea and upon theOld World. The Westerner had forgotten the oys-ters and shad, the duck and terrapin of the still lived on venison and corn, the best portablefood ever knowTi for hard marching and hard more dainty Easterners, the timid ones, the stay-at-homes, said that this new man of the Western ter-ritory was a creature haU horse and half were perhaps more just to accord to him a certainmanhood, either
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