Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . uninter-rupted and resistless column of volunteers that marched to the land ofthe free. St. Louis was a squalid border town, the outpost of civiliza-tion. The railroad ended at Jefferson City. Trans-continental trains, withsleepers and dining cars, annihilating space and time, were the vaguedream of a future century. Overtaking at Hermann a fragile steamer that had left her levee theday before, we embarked upon a monotonous voyage of four daysalong t
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . uninter-rupted and resistless column of volunteers that marched to the land ofthe free. St. Louis was a squalid border town, the outpost of civiliza-tion. The railroad ended at Jefferson City. Trans-continental trains, withsleepers and dining cars, annihilating space and time, were the vaguedream of a future century. Overtaking at Hermann a fragile steamer that had left her levee theday before, we embarked upon a monotonous voyage of four daysalong the treacherous and tortuous channel that crawled betweenforests of cottonwood and barren bars of tawny sand, to the frontier ofthe American Desert. It was the mission of the pioneer with his plough to abolish thefrontier, and to subjugate the desert. One has become a boundary,and the other an oasis. But with so much acquisition, something hasbeen lost for which there is no compensation or equivalent. He isunfortunate who has never felt the fascination of the frontier; the?emptation of unknown and mysterious solitudes; the exultation of 4. KANSAS. helping to build a State; of forming its institutions and giving directionto its career. Kansas, in its rudimentary stage, extended westward six hundredand fifty-eight miles to the crest of the Rocky Mountains, the easternboundary of Utah. By subsequent amputation and curtailment, it wasshorn to its present narrow limits of fifty-two-million acres; threethousand square miles in excess of the entire area of New , Manitou, Pueblo, Pikes Peak, and Cripple Creek are amongthe treasures which the State-makers of 1859, like the base Indian,threw unconsciously away, though richer than all his tribe. Thirty years ago, along the eastern margin of the grassy quadranglewhich geographers called Kansas, the rude forefathers of Atchison,Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Lawrence, andTopeka slept in the intervalsof their strife with the petty tyra
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