A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . y maintainedone public institutionin common — namely,a school, with its placeof public assemblagiThe building had no flooibut the beaten earth, aiKits thick Avails were blocof matted prairie turf, itroof also being of sodssupported upon somepoles brought fromthe scanty timber-growth along the marginof a prairie river. To-day /these jwor pioneers are enjoying ^Wtheir reward. Their valley istraversed by s
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . y maintainedone public institutionin common — namely,a school, with its placeof public assemblagiThe building had no flooibut the beaten earth, aiKits thick Avails were blocof matted prairie turf, itroof also being of sodssupported upon somepoles brought fromthe scanty timber-growth along the marginof a prairie river. To-day /these jwor pioneers are enjoying ^Wtheir reward. Their valley istraversed by several railroads;prosperous villages have sprung up; their lands are of considerable value; they all live in well-built farm-houses; their shade trees have grown to a height of fifty or sixty feet; a bus-tling and ambitious city, with fine churches, opera-houses, electric illumination,and the most advanced public educational system, is only a few miles away fi-omthem. Such transformations have occurred, not alone in a few spots in Iowaand South Dakota, but are common throughout a region that extends fi-om theBi-itish dominions to the Indian Territory, and from the Mississippi River to. SLUICE-GATJi). 518 ADMINISTRATION OF CLEVELAND. ?A tlie Rocky Mountains—a region comprising more than a lialf-millioii squaremiles. THE GRANARY OF THE WORLD. Naturally the industrial life of these Northwestern communities is based solidly upon agriculture. There is, per-haps, hardly any other agricultural re-gion of equal extent upon the face of theearth that is so fertile and so welladapted for the production of the mostnecessary articles of human food. Duringtlie past ApvAcAf tlie worlds markets haveliten notal)h di<^tuibed <ind affected, andl)iofound socid and political ^ ha\( ottumd m vaiioiis remotei r t s of thee a 1- i h. It iswithinb 0 u n d sto as-
Size: 1489px × 1678px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherphila, bookyear1900
