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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3III. FRONTIER FARMER. How happy is the condition of au honest farmer, safe in his own resources! He can hear the roar of the great storms that wreck the fortunes of the merchant, but the changes of trade, the pressure of hard times, all the ups and downs of fortune that send men from the heights of wealth to the depths of poverty, he seldom or never feels. He sows his seed in hope, and reaps his harvest in a .full content; his bank is full of potatoes; his stock is alive, and growing; his lots are not blocks but sections. I grow more than content with farming, I am in love with it. This is what Mr. Conant writes from the West in a letter to his sister, dateless, but from an allusion in it to Van Buren, written, I suppose, in the spring of 1837. He had then been in the West nearly two years; his report of the good land on his return home had created a revolution. New England is a dear good place to be born in, a noble nursery of men, and her true sons can never forget their true mother; but the family is large, and the old homestead is limited, and so it came to pass at last that Bben Conant, with all his household, determined to move on in the track of the sun. It seems that there was already land located and secured to P. and E. Conant, down on tho Mississippi, and it had once been the intention of settling there; but it was finally determined to stake out the new home a good deal farther north. And so at last the right spot was found on the Desplaine about twenty miles north-west of Chicago. The country there is low and flat, but very fertile and easy to farm. The land then was just as the Indians had left it, and was not even surveyed; but there was plenty of wood on it, and wild game and fish. A rising city lay within a day's journey, ready to take everything that could be raised, and...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443265409
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443265403
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 96

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