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Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Pioneer, and His Story: An Address Delivered at Iowa City Iowa on the Occasion of the Fifteenth Annual, Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association
To me, not much of the philosophy of this man's life and achievements is revealed in the story of movements and stopping-places. Though always interesting and important, the mere mention of the thousands of new connnuni ties - bf the villages and towns actually made, of those dreamed of or even of the unnumbered places born and named only to die as soon as the surveyor and the town-site proprietor had driven stakes into the boundless prairies - does not go very far. In number they resemble the sands of the seashore and each emphasizes the gregarious qualities in human nature.
The Pioneer's real story is much larger, more far - reaching, more pervasive, more creative.
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