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Bingham, Helen M. (Helen Maria) / History of Green County, Wisconsin
(1877)
York, pp. [229]-233
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YORK. The first settlers of Green County never tired of ex- tolling the beauty of its prairies. Sometimes, when they watched the play of the sunlight on the long ograssy billows before them, something of its bright- ness entered into their own hopes; and, with unusual confidence in the world's progress, they remarked to each other, sometime, though it wo'n't be in our day, these prairies will all be in farms. Then, because they had come, originally if not immediately, from a wooded country, and it seemed to them more in accordance with the fitness of. things to spend life making a clearing than to take one of nature's making, a great many of them turned their backs on the beautiful prairie and made their homes in the timber, though a few of them, after grubbing away their best years, adopted a contra- ry opinion and removed to the prairie., where they speedily acquired a competence. Even while they ad- mired the prairies, most of these denizens of the forest lamented the country's great scarcity of trees; and, as the Indian was known to be the cause of some of the 20*
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