The Prairie - James Fenimore Cooper - Books -  - 9798691033179 - January 27, 2021
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The Prairie

Book Excerpt: ...ablish themselves along the margins of the larger water-courses, content with the rich returns that the generous, alluvial, bottoms of the rivers never fail to bestow on the most desultory industry. In this manner were communities formed with magical rapidity; and most of those who witnessed the purchase of the empty empire, have lived to see already a populous and sovereign state, parcelled from its inhabitants, and received into the bosom of the national Union, on terms of political equality. The incidents and scenes which are connected with this legend, occurred in the earliest periods of the enterprises which have led to so great and so speedy a result. The harvest of the first year of our possession had long been passed, and the fading foliage of a few scattered trees was already beginning to exhibit the hues and tints of autumn, when a train of wagons issued from the bed of a dry rivulet, to pursue its course across the undulating surface, of what, in the language of the country of which we write, ..

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 27, 2021
ISBN13 9798691033179
Pages 408
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 21 mm   ·   544 g
Language English  

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