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Excerpt from A Ramble in Wonderland: Being a Description of the Marvelous Region Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Consider, again, that my other patron saint of American literature, Feni more Cooper, apparently looked upon the region stretching westward from the Father Of Rivers to the rugged peaks of the Rockies as presenting an enigma impossible of solution by the husbandman, -as witness the following excerpt from his introduction to The Prairie: The American prairies are of two kinds. Those which lie east of the Mississippi are comparatively small, are exceedingly fertile, and always sur rounded by forests. They are susceptible of cultivation, and are fast becoming settled. They abound in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana.
The second description of these natural meadows lies west of the Missis sippi, at a distance of a few hundred miles from that river, and are called the Great Prairies. They resemble the steppes of Tartary more than any other known portion of the world; being, in fact, a vast country, incapable of sus taining a dense population, in the absence of those two great necessaries wood and water. Rivers abound, it is true; but this region is nearly destitute of brooks and the smaller water-courses which tend SO much to comfort and fertility.
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