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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
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south-ern border of this region is marked by wil-lows and other shrubs. A little southward,forests of conebearing trees, spruce, fir, hem-lock and pine, are found. These forestsextend across the continent from the regionsouth of Hudson Bay to the Pacific coast,thence southward along the Cascade and Sier-ra Nevada mountains nearly to San Francisco.In the eastern highland, forests of hard woodand pine are found generally distributed asfar south as the Gulf and along the Gulf asfar west as northeastern Texas and Arkansas.In the south, these forests consist largelyof pine and cypress. The northern part ofthis forest region extends westward as faras the Mississippi River, and in the vicinityof the Great Lakes the extensive pine areashave given rise to a large lumber industry.In general, the prairie region and the greatplains are treeless, except along the banks ofstreams and arou,nd other bodies of water,but originally they were covered with a heavygrowth of grass. In the southwestern part
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ANIMALS OF XORTH AMERICA 9587 See, also, full-page illustration Animals of the United States, in article United States. NORTH AMERICA 2588 NORTH AMERICA of the United States are extensive growthsof cactus. For cultivated plants, see thesubhead Agriculture, under the various arti-cles on political divisions of the continent. Animal Life. When first discovered bywhite men, North America contained a largenumber of wild animals, including a widerange of species. In the extreme north all ofthese are still found, the most important aui-mals of this region being the walrus, thepolar bear, the fur seal and the caribou, orAmerican reindeer. The Arctic fox, thebeaver, the otter, the marten and other fur-beaiing animals are also found in this re-gion. In the southern belt of this region,extending as far south as northern Maine,are found the moose and the deer. In theRocky Mountain region are found the elk,the deer, the Rocky Mountain sheep and,among carnivorous animals, the wolf, theeoati and th

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