. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . he Kansas cyclone, the Kansas grasshopper, the Kansas boom, and the Kansas Utopia were unknown. I was a student in the Junior class at Williams College when President Pierce, forgotten but for that signature, approved the act establishingthe Territory of Kansas, May 30, 1854. I recall the inconceivable agitation that preceded, accompanied and
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . he Kansas cyclone, the Kansas grasshopper, the Kansas boom, and the Kansas Utopia were unknown. I was a student in the Junior class at Williams College when President Pierce, forgotten but for that signature, approved the act establishingthe Territory of Kansas, May 30, 1854. I recall the inconceivable agitation that preceded, accompanied and followed the event. It was anepoch. Destiny closed one volume of our annals, and opening another, traced with shadowy finger upon its pages a million epitaphs, endingwith Appomattox. Kansas was the prologue to a tragedy whose epilogue has not yet been pronounced ; the prelude to a fugue of battles whose reverberations have-not yet died away. Floating one summer night upon a moonlit sea, I heard far over the still waters a high, clear voice singing : To the West ! To tbe West! To the land of the the mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea;Where a man is a man if he s willing; to toil,And the humblest may gather the fruits of tlie soil.(5). A few days later, iny studies beiug completed, I joined the uuinterrupted and resistless column of volunteers that marched to the land of thefree. St. was a squalid border town, the outpost of civilization. The railroad ended at Jefferson City. Trans-continental trains withsleepers and dining-cars, annihilating space and time, were the vague dream of a future century. Overtaking at Hermann a fragile steamer that had left her levee the day before, we embarked upon a monotonous voyage of four days alongthe treacherous and tortuous channel that crawled between forests of Cottonwood and barren bars of tawny sand, to the frontier of the AmericanDesert. It was the mission of the pioneer with his plough to abolish the frontier and to
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