. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . This superb country, unquestionably one of the most fertile on the globe, is aconstant source of torment to the white men of the border, in whom the spirit ofspeculation is very strong. The hardycitizen of the South-west bears no ill-will toward the various Indian tribes,but it irritates him to see such vasttracts of land lying idle. He aches
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . This superb country, unquestionably one of the most fertile on the globe, is aconstant source of torment to the white men of the border, in whom the spirit ofspeculation is very strong. The hardycitizen of the South-west bears no ill-will toward the various Indian tribes,but it irritates him to see such vasttracts of land lying idle. He aches tobe admitted to the Territory with thesame privileges granted Indian citizens,viz.; the right to occupy and possessall the land they may fence in, and toclaim all that remains unfenced withina quarter of a mile on either side oftheir fenced lots. He is crazed withvisions of the far-spreading, flower-bespangled prairies, the fertile foot-hills, the rich quarries, mines, andvalley-lands. He burns to course atfree will over the grazing regionswhere even the Indians raise such finestock. And now that the railroad has , ... Bnd^e across the North Fork of the Canadian River, entered a protest against continued Indun Territory (M , K & T Railway). THE CHEROKEE FEUD WAR IN THE TERRITORY.
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