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Excerpt from Marian Rooke, or the Quest for Fortune: A Tale of the Younger World
Fifteen years ago it was not so. There were then far reach ing spaces, whereb the elk and the antelope could feed in peace, and the bison still roam undisturbed. Spaces where no human: beings save bands of the thin and scattered tribes of Sioux; Pawnees, and Apaches ever found their way to break with rude chase or ruder battle the solitude of nature. Spaces where we; may suppose that fol ages and ages back no sounds save those of nature' s own everlasting processes had interrupted the solemn stillness. And these tracts might to-day have been equally vacant and silent - might have been yet unoccupied, or, as some would have it, yet unpolluted by the white man, but for one thing, which since 1492 has been working such wondrous effects upon mankind and their habitation, - the potent agent 01.
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