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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... f HB CLOSING STORY. DATING from the consolidation of the principal fur interests of the Northwest into what was styled the American Fur Company, which event came to pass about the year 1830--the wild inhabitants of the Upper Missouri country were on the threshold of a great change. A change to be dreaded and feared by these unsophisticated peoples--and well they may have feared. In the thousands of years of their existance on these high treeless plains--life succeeding life-- death succeeding death, with no more preceptible change to them in the face of time's passage than that which came and went with the life of the buffalo, from whose flesh these nomads fed. The millions upon millions of small round circles of stones that everywhere make plastic sign in the upper Missouri river country, is the plain and indelible record of the thousands of years of nonprogressive, unchangable Indian life. The introduction of the fur and hide hunter working under corporate control as paid hirelings in the Indian country was a change--but a sad one for all existing animal life in an arcadia peculiarlyand fittingly these animals own. The red inhabitants who had claimed their very beginning had sprung from the stones of the prairie must now make welcome to a people bearing a white heat that would melt away these decendents of the rocks. The change would be rapid. The caldron of seething genii enveloped in fumes would spread its contaminating effects to everything with life in it. Its mission was to destroy--to supplant--to make over or make new. It was the expected that came in this instance. Within the compass of seventy years animated nature in that region had wholly changed. The vast areas that had supported and kept fat the buffalo, elk, deer,...
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