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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a Gambling House—Playing Keno—Denison, Texas. 1/6 THE IJIRTH OF DENISON, folks take their frame houses off from the rollers !—an expression intended toopen up a startling prospect for the future of Denison. But, indeed, all theseenthusiastic pioneers of a new civilization were justified in their seemingly wildprophecies of greatness. Northern Texas, under the beneficent influences ofrailroad pioneering, is assuming a prominence which had never been imaginedfor it until within the last five years. As soon as the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway had crossed the Redriver, a stream of immigration, which the most sanguine had not hoped for, setin. The North-west seemed to move en masse. The tracts of fertile, black-wax land, which literally needed but to be tickled with the plough to smile a
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Men drunk and sober danced to rude music. (Page 177.J harvest, were rapidly taken up, and Denison sprang into existence as the chieftown of the newly developed region. It was organized four months before myvisit, and since that time the Denison Town Company had sold $90,000 worth ofbuilding lots. The town stands in a county absolutely free from debt, and iscit the outlet of one of the most fertile farming regions of the world. Tworailroads, coming to it from opposite points, and not costing it a cent, laid thefoundation for its remarkable advance, an advance more like magic than like thenormal growth of a pioneer settlement. All the lumber for the houses and business establishments was broughthundreds of miles, there beinj? none suitable in the vicinity; and the car-loads ROUGH LIFE RAPID IMPROVEMENT. 1/7 of material were changed Into rough but commodious structures in a twinkHng.It was exceedingly remarkable, also, that in a community one-half of which wasundoubtedly made up of profe

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