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Excerpt from The Story of a Western Claim: A Tale of How Two Boys Solved the Indian Question
I'LL tell ye, I don't believe the Lord ever intended any one fer to live in such a country as this. It ain't fit fer anything but coyotes to snarl 'round and hate theirselves in, an' I'm a-gettin' out of it as fast as I kin. Ye see, there's SO much sand out here ye can't raise much Of anything, an' what ye do raise ye can't sell, as there ain't any place fer to sell it. Ye Simply break yer back all sum mer a-tryin' to make corn grow out'n the sand-heaps, an' then burn it all up durin' Winter a-keepin' from freezin' to death. I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
