The West: From the Census of 1880, a History of the Industrial , Commercial, Social, and Political Development of the States and Territories of the West from 1800 to 1880 |
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Page 78 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free...
Page 584 - ... rapidity. There is scarcely a want, wish, or aspiration of the human heart which they do not in some measure help to gratify. They promote the pleasures of social life and of friendship. They bring the skilled physician swiftly from a distance to attend the sick and the wounded, and enable the absent friend to be present at the bedside of the dying. They have more than realized the fabulous conception of the eastern imagination, which pictured the genii as transporting inhabited palaces through...
Page 512 - value" and "full cash value" mean the amount at which the property would be taken in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor.
Page 214 - Taking the country altogether, so far as has been explored, and to all appearances, together with the information received concerning the balance, it is so bad there would not be more than one acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation.
Page 70 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township...
Page 584 - They scatter the productions of the press and literature broadcast through the country with amazing rapidity. There is scarcely a want, wish or aspiration of the human heart which they do not in some measure help to gratify. They promote the pleasures of social life and of friendship; they bring the skilled physician swiftly from a distance to attend the sick and the wounded, and enable the absent friend to be present at the bedside of the dying. They have more than realized the fabulous conception...
Page 509 - Men, women, and cliildren are permitted to do nearly as they please. High wages, migratory habits, and bachelor life, are not favorable to the maintenance of stiff social rules among men, and the tone of society among women must partake, to a considerable extent, of that among men, especially in a country where the women are in a small minority, and therefore are much courted.
Page 591 - Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in making the railroad and branches aforesaid, every alternate section of land designated by even numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said road and branches...
Page 584 - Railroads are the great public highways of the world, along which its gigantic currents of trade and travel continually pour — highways compared with which the most magnificent highways of antiquity dwindle into insignificance. They are the most marvelous invention of modern times. They have done more to develop the wealth and resources, to stimulate the industry, reward the labor and promote the general comfort and prosperity of the country, than any other, perhaps than all other mere physical...
Page 584 - They have done more to develop the wealth and resources, to stimulate the industry, reward the labor, and promote the general comfort and prosperity of the country, than any other, and perhaps than all other, mere physical causes combined. There is probably not a man, woman, or child whose interest or comfort has not been in some degree subserved by them.