The Cabin on the Prairie

The Cabin on the Prairie

If you stay here long, you will become so Westernized that you will lose all love for New England. Thats my experience. So said a brawny pioneer, a man of large mind, and generous heart, and a sledge-hammer fist that never struck a cowards blow; but when swung in defence of the right was like the jaw-bone of Samson to the Philistines. He had emigrated from Maine twenty years before, and was one of the first settlers I met on the prairie near the scene of my story. Was his prediction fulfilled? Ah, how like sweetest music sounded the bells of Salem (city of peace) the first Sunday of my return to the Old Bay State! Besides, the frontiersman misrepresented himself. For, seated by his ample clay-stick-and-stone fireplace, how his eye kindled, and tones mellowed, as he treated us to reminiscences of his early days! And what a grip he gave the hand of a freshly-arrived Yankee! Then there were those east who said, You will soon tire of the West. They, also, were mistaken. An invalid, with shadowy form and trembling limbs, when I left New England, I awakened to a new life in Minnesota. Take a gun on your shoulders, kill and eat the wild game of the prairies, said my medical friends. I anticipated vicissitude and deprivation in following such counsel; but these 6 toughened my weak frame, and added zest to frontier labors and pleasures; for I was soon able to do a mans share of the former, and in threading forest and prairie I was brought into delightful nearness to nature in its beauty, freshness, and magnitude, and in visiting the lodge of the Indian and the cabins of the settlers I met with plenty of adventure. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 28870
Author: Pearson, C. H. (Charles Henry)
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English