Steamboating On the Upper Mississippi the Water Way to Iowa Some River Histor
Steamboating On the Upper Mississippi the Water Way to Iowa Some River Histor
William John Petersen
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" *'° A bird's-eye view of this movement may be obtained from the musty newspaper files of the period. Since Illinois attracted the largest number of settlers one may examine the influx into that State. "The rapid tide of emigration — the rushing flood of population that is con- stantly pouring in upon our Western borders, has been to us, an oft-told tale", declared the editor of the Chicago Democrat in November, 1833. "To it we have never given full faith and credit. We have supposed it but th...e fruit of an overheated brain, or the offspring of uncontrolled exaggeration. " Suddenly the "reality" of the westward movement was impressed upon this "Doubting Thomas". "Chicago, nay the very spot of ground where we are now writing", he wrote, "a few months since was the abode of the savage; and where are now seen a long line of [303] Steamboating on Upper Mississippi habitations for wliite men, a short time ago was unoc- cupied save by the wigwam of the Indian. The change has been wrought by magic.
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