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The Louisiana Purchase as It Was and as It Is (Pp. 92-5301)

The Louisiana Purchase as It Was and as It Is (Pp. 92-5301)

Winship, Albert Edward

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151120529
ISBN13: 9781151120526
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.29 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... XXXV WHAT A CENTURY HAS WROUGHT TO ONE who looks to-day upon the imposing commonwealths formed wholly or in part from the Louisiana Purchase, comes the constant surprise that so marvelous an instance of settlement and development can date its genesis back to but a hundred years ago. In the trans-Mississippi region there has been one of the greatest kaleidoscopic changes ever seen in the history of human migrations. But a brief century since, Louisiana was prac tically unknown. It was a vast blank upon the continental map. All was silence and solitude, like the lonely steppes of Turkestan and Tartary. It was inhabited by wandering tribes whose occupation was war, and whose pastime was the chase. It was pastured for untold ages by roaming herds of bison, that followed the seasons in their recurring migrations from the Arctic circle to the Gulf. But, to-day, Louisiana is all known, from its princeliest peak to its deepest dell. The sur' veyor has run his measuring tape over it all, and the map is complete. The pioneer has subjugated the wilderness, and made it more productive than the basin of the storied Nile. It is the granary of the continent to-day, and its surplus grain feeds hungered Europe. To move its products in their season taxes the banking facilities of the nation. Wall Street trades eagerly in the stocks of its trunk railway lines, fondly hopes for dividends, and gets them. The miner has found the hiding places of its boundless treasures, and his output affects the stock exchanges and the coinage of the world. Civilization has supplanted and corralled barbarism. The schoolhouse and the church stand to-day where the rude wigwam once stood. And great and commanding cities, on sites where formerly stood the rude stockade and the furtrader's post, ...

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