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Title: Shoshone, and other western wonders
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Roberts, Edwards
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in material development. Inthe near past Nebraska was chiefly famous as agrazing country. To-day it is one of the greatfarming regions of the middle West. Time waswhen the rainfall was insufficient to grow crops;but now even this disadvantage no longer ex-ists. Year by year the rainfall increases. Inexplanation of this phenomenon — if it be aphenomenon — various causes are assigned : onetheory being that moisture is attracted by cul-tivation of the soil; another that railroads arefollowed by rain-clouds; another that the old-time hardness of the soil no longer exists, sothat water is retained in the earth, and, evaporat-ing, creates clouds that formerly had no sourceof existence. Whatever the reason may be,however, the fact remains that Nebraska, as wellas its neighbors, has changed for the better, andcan no longer, by any possibility, be regardedas a part of the Great American Desert whichin our childhood days was represented as cover-ing an alarmingly large area of our country.
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS. ij One truth regarding it is that you do not be-come acquainted with its best or more interest-ing features by simply travelling through thatportion of the country which the railway haschosen. One has passing glimpses of the many* prairie towns, which are so sure an indicationof the actual progress being made; and thereare isolated dugouts scattered along theway. But the largest and most productive farmsare mostly well away from the railroad, andthe peculiarities of life in a country so latelysettled as Nebraska are only discovered bypersonal investigation. Study the pioneer Ne-braskan, and you will not only be amused butinstructed. His life is an altogether strangeone, not resembling in the least that of anyother man whose progress you have ever chancedto follow. His home is a dugout, or, if fortunehas smiled upon him, an adobe, with a roof of sods, and his nearest neighbor lives twenty milesaway. And yet I question if you will anywherefind more contentment than ex

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