The Way to the West / and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone-Crockett-Carson

take measures to give the people more land; that by means of irrigation it should restore, in some measure at least, the opportunities which allured the men

ll tracts. "The political party that shall boldly advocate a great national irrigation appropriation will receive the support of millions of people, now homeless and discontented, who desire homes and an opportunity to make a living by honest labor." This is the statement of a master in transportation, who has assisted in the

y for farming purposes, but there exists no richer soil when once you get water on it. There is no county or state government, there is not even the richest railroad corporation, that can afford to put this vast acreage under the ditch. It is a problem for the national government of the United States; and, mark my words, that government will one day be obliged to solve that problem. Of course, the interest of our railroad in th

weeping national action in the matter, there remains chiefly the vis inerti? of mental habit in the American farmer, who hitherto has not been acquainted with the doctrine of irrigation and reclamation. Vast tracts of California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas-large regions in what was once considered the i

history of the American West. These dwellers under the Stars and Stripes, these citizens of the land of the free, of the land supposed to offer the greatest extent of human opportunity to

efer a cold, bleak environment, a rude, hard life, with poorer markets, a looser touch with civilization, but with a bolder, a wider and freer individual horizon. There has been nothing in our history more pathetic than this. There has been nothing more cheerlessly disheartening in our history than the though

Within the year 1902 more than fifty thousand American citizens, some say seventy-five, even a hundred thousand, are thought to have taken up homes on the soil of Canada. These American emigrants took with them twenty million dollars out

influence American citizens to settle on lands subject to the rigorous climate north of Lake Superior. If only the settler shall come here he may have land at any price he likes, on terms of payment that shall suit himself. In all the large Canadian cities, whether under government countena

ghly differentiated effort going on toward the influencing of this American emigration. To offset it we have nothing to offer except the incoming stream of city dwellers from Europe, a

is indeed passing, yet it is not to pass without a fight to the last gasp upon the part of that individual himself. It would lie ill to suggest that the American government has not always properly treated its people, in spite of that vast modern meshwork of monopolies and combinations which has brou

elves. If the transportation of the future shall make Canada and the United States alike, then assuredly the people will attend to the rest, and care not what may be the politics or the government of either the one land or the other. The eventual settlement of the West may mean a country in which there shall be small distinction between Canada and the United States, small distinction between the latter and t

er bigotry is that of age, her unprogressive slowness of change is senile. She has been the great colonizer; and in so far as the development of transportation facilities has brought her colonies closer home to her, it has given England hope-her only hope-that of existing in the future of her robu

somewhere within striking distance of Asia. "This," says one commentator, "is England's answer to Russia and the trans-Siberian railway."

so, she can not be safe as against the inroads of the American citizens. She can not restore the level of the waters by the building of railroads with military reasons under them. There may be a time in the history of the North Americ

ible thing. It is nearer from Quebec and Ottawa to Washington, than it is to London. Patriotism is much a matter of transportation. The faster the ocean steamsh

arrel on a weaker land, with the result of a war in which the weaker power would inevitably be obliged to pay the penalty of unsuccessful resort to arms. England and Germany wished to do what England had been doing in South Africa and elsewhere for some time. They wanted a quarrel and a war, therefore a dismemberment and a division. Water transportation is cheap. The coal and iron of China lie close to water transportation. It had excellently

spendthrift royally as we might. Now it is too late. We may shut our gates on the East, but we must some time take our part in the great game of going abroad in the West. We

rity" for the United States to think of wresting the maritime supremacy from Great Britain. It may be such, though we are not sure. It was perhaps crude vulgarity when we took America from Great Britain, when we took for ourselves a country so full of natural wealth, a country so perfect for the upbuilding of an aggressive and self-reliant national character. It might be cr

ssee troops fought well in the Philippines. Not all the world can stop us from thus going abroad. Whether we shall come home

new questions, new problems constantly confronting us with an ever growing urgency. It is not in any wise certain that a dispassionate study of this nature can leave us with a national vanity wholly untouc

r unimaginative records of events, without still retaining the curious and awesome feeling that heretofore the settlement of the American West, the birth and growth of the American man, has been a matter of fate, o

ps in the forefront of our ranks we carry trump of Jericho for other lands; if not in the bugle note of our arm

environment in any antipodal quarter of the world-that means history; that spells questions in forethought; that bids rise an American statesmanship b

but the same as the wrinkled-booted foreigner that puts down his black box in the middle of a Dakota prairie or in the heart of a crowded Eastern city. Steam has no care for the real glory of our flag. It cares naught for character. It does not love humanity. In it dwells no ancient love for the history of an America which at least might once have been dear to

h is now no more. That was indeed a land rich in the bounty of nature, rich in opportunity for humanity. It was a land where a man could indeed be a man; where i

d abroad. In all reverence, let us hope that God may prosper him! In all reverence, let us hope that there may never arise

6

ulation." Per contra, American emigrants face some facts which to-day are not wholly satisfactory. Taxation in Canada in 1901 was $10 per capita, and but $7.50 per capita in the United States. To-day the debt of the Dominion is $66 per capita, whereas that of the United States figures but $14.52. In proportion to population, Canada has twice as much foreign trade as the United States; yet much of her foreign

6

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populati

ways

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of the Nort

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need f

makers

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as pack a

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of fronti

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the Spani

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of Kent

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Indian

cient road of t

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center of

erica

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in San Juan minin

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go in 19

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h in the Ro

City, Mont

ton: 8

undry Citizens of

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tant,

l, Jam

ans:

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stem of pione

st of the All

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in the development o

rought by

wth in Am

largely outside

rowth to

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to Mont

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ration to th

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railway

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not a transconti

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uck,"

: first one in

stem of pion

Gener

the West in regard to

ard the Mississippi in t

lion of his men aga

by Tenne

f Washin

North Carolina l

itten compact of ci

ation of Watauga to

Jonesboro

govern

charge of

to Congr

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s," Th

s capture Dani

Captain

-Kentucky

, Dr. H

s, Kit

ada mounta

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ation

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ather d

Henry

James

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cific by land

ajor Will

g the ca

industry likely to ca

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mother of

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underst

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e with the C

tion of Ge

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line

: descript

f empi

uses great change

one built on th

y on western

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t, Joh

by Indi

, Willi

Uriah

Michael:

r appeal to e

, Mart

, John

, Robe

Jonathan:

e, Will

of in runni

r mule

eceived by outl

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ion to the Unit

ania

lonel: foo

saved to th

m peop

n Free State of

ohn Sevi

of govern

ary institu

ent:

ss western c

: siz

ation

indepen

r declaration of

opyl?

rig: 17

ilip Evans

in of the Ton

s: being ab

hip of Ast

avan: its

carrie

southern-wes

he Iroqu

nta Fé

regon

, Colon

ion: in its

ads to attempts o

nce in earl

yed in earl

nia Unive

culties of in

is:

s, The

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Scots

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uren:

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to tread the Or

ia Cro

d, Hen

Montana: mark

s a breeding grou

arrodsburg and B

n Free State of

included in Free St

oldt, Ba

: descripti

goes to the P

ctor Thoma

e, Joh

Rev. J.

, George:

th,

t Great Me

Ohio Ri

Sevier,

es at, unable to be f

nglan

on Colle

of offer their services

of North Ca

he United

establish a g

: Wilkinson stirs up diss

uga:

North Car

cles of Asso

Green Bay to the

tap"

Daniel:

sh:

o southern states for

old or

of its develo

ce between it a

man: The Am

his reliance and

ement: start

lock of wild

angle

amuel: foo

ns, Th

f moving a to

on future of Louisiana

of country inhabited

-haw"

an makers": rif

plans to hand over the W

his intr

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s, Ezek

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carefully s

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OLDEN

ntures in the

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f a bear-cu

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three-quarters husky" torn between th

SON O

ey Wolf and the gallant part he play

GE OF CAP

r Island, a Mormon colony, and

ANGER

an vengeance, and a

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ght in the "valley o

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ld flavor of the wilderness is blended

RIZZL

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adventure in the C

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venture in the

GE OF MAR

ncidents in the land o

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ar North. The great Photop

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. KYNE'

oks are sold. Ask for

IDE OF

sh blood in his veins-there's a tale that Kyne can

D OF T

king, falls in love with "Nan of the Sawdust Pile," a

EY OF TH

y of the Giants against treachery. The reader finishes with a

PY

easley, the boy he tried to break because

R: MAN

the "States," met up with a revolution and for a while adventures and excitement

IN SC

a-faring men-a Captain Scraggs, owner of the green vegetable

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sun-baked desert town, of Harley P. Hennage, the best gamble

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GREGORY'

oks are sold. Ask for

RLASTIN

nd humanity, and of a beautiful girl's regeneration from a s

RT V

d gold. They meet a rancher who loses his heart, and

TO

his rights. How he won his game and the girl he lo

LS OF S

night journey into the strongholds of a lawless band.

F BLUE L

being robbed by her foreman. How, with the help of Bud Lee

SHOR

quarrel. Financial complications, villains, a horse-race a

US TROUB

her chagrin. There is "another man" who complicates matters, but

FEET

pon Buck Thornton, but she soon realizes he is not guilty. I

F B

usted. A woman hater and sharp of tongue, he finds a match in Ygerne

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love and jealousy play stra

ELOR H

ve two men at

achelor Husband" will particularly interest, and strangely

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a terrific contrast between the woman whose love wa

AGE OF BA

uild their wedded life upon a gospel of hate for each other

PHILL

ieves. The man was fine, clean, fresh from th

OF THE

and inherits millions, but not happiness. Then at last-but we

COND H

no one who has loved or hopes to love can afford to

HANTO

n the person they believed the object of their affections? That was Es

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H. PORTE

oks are sold. Ask for

T D

he comes to fill in the hearts of the g

TO UNDE

omance of love

ONEY!

relatives, sends them each a check for $100,000, and then as plain

STAR

ub of six girls and their

A

ugh the gulf of despair into a final victory gained b

S THE

our own people. Contains some of th

NGLED

concentrated charm and tend

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Mrs. Porter's wonderful talent for

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