. The story of corn and the westward migration. of themountains. We have seen settlers under DanielBoone cross over into the blue-grass region and takepossession of the great Mississippi Valley. We haveseen many millions of people come from Europe,and, joining millions more from the Atlantic CoastStates, journey westward across the Mississippiinto the valleys of the Missouri and the this mighty stream of homeseekersflowed. It poured through the mountain passesand appropriated the land along the Pacific , when settlers reached the Rocky Moun-tains they had no such d
. The story of corn and the westward migration. of themountains. We have seen settlers under DanielBoone cross over into the blue-grass region and takepossession of the great Mississippi Valley. We haveseen many millions of people come from Europe,and, joining millions more from the Atlantic CoastStates, journey westward across the Mississippiinto the valleys of the Missouri and the this mighty stream of homeseekersflowed. It poured through the mountain passesand appropriated the land along the Pacific , when settlers reached the Rocky Moun-tains they had no such difficulty in crossing themand taking possession of the lands beyond asDaniel Boone and his followers had in crossingthe Appalachian ridge a hundred years before. The United States is a large country, but home-seekers may travel to-day from the Atlantic to thePacific in less time than it took Daniel Boone to go 236 The Last American Frontiers 237 from North Carolina to Kentucky. Cheap land may-be found in almost every state, for often the owner. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. Buffalo in Yellowstone National Park, Of the vast herds that onceroamed our plains, less than one thousand now remain, care-fully protected in our parks and zoological gardens is ignorant of its value, or unable to make it yieldabundantly. But there is now very little free landsuch as was plentiful in the Mississippi Valley a halfcentury ago. Even the great grassy plains of littlerain are no longer the home of the cowboy and thebuffalo, for the great American desert has been occu-pied, and irrigation is making it blossom like the gar-dens of the East. Rich land will never again be socheap in America, and the owners of such land whocannot make it increase, or even maintain, its fertilitystand in the way of the worlds progress to-day. 238 The Story of Corn Movement of Population. We have seen howeagerness for free lands sent settlers west by themillion; how in the thirties and forties the thirteeno
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