. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . J. D. STRONG. It is said that Englands people are divided into two classes—royalty,and the rest of the people. American history is made up of two classes—thepioneer and the rest of the people. The pioneer is in a class all by himself; he is the advance guard in everygreat enterprise; he is on the firing line in every contest; a stranger todefeat and upon intimate terms with victory, no matter how long the settlement of America his ax awakened the first rude echoes of thewoodmans craft
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . J. D. STRONG. It is said that Englands people are divided into two classes—royalty,and the rest of the people. American history is made up of two classes—thepioneer and the rest of the people. The pioneer is in a class all by himself; he is the advance guard in everygreat enterprise; he is on the firing line in every contest; a stranger todefeat and upon intimate terms with victory, no matter how long the settlement of America his ax awakened the first rude echoes of thewoodmans craft in the primeval forests of the East and of the South. Hisrude bark first rode the waves of the great lakes, searched into their bays 64 PIONEEK HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY and inlets, and reared rude homes on their murmuring shores. His plowlirst turned the rich, black loam of the middle west, and made it yield suppliesfor the wants of many. His feet first left a white mans trail upon the arid. •^.-v-iifc Blazing a Pathway. sands of the Great American Desert, and his courage and skill turned itinto a land of plenty. Undaunted and undismayed, he found his way through treacherouspasses and over snow-clad summits of the Kockies, and at his magic touchthey yielded up their precious metals. Cities, towns and railroads appearedin every valley, like the realization of some magicians dream. Thus from shore to shore of this mighty continent went the pioneers ofcivilization, the heroes of border strifes, the men and women who blazedthe pathway for the actual settler, who followed to find a home and inde-pendence. It was in May, 1882, after the first pioneers had made a dim, shadowytrail, that I first found my way over the border into Custer county. I usethe word found properly, for it was an actual discovery of a most difficultway into the then promised land. In company with John M. Morrison I left the main road leading fromKearney to this upper country at a point in Buffalo county,
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