BlockElkhart County, Indiana - Nature, 1905 (part 2 of 2)
From A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Elkhart County, Indiana, published 1905. 161 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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161 wordsMachine-read from scans of A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Elkhart County, Indiana, published 1905. Nothing has been corrected: fixing what looks like a misspelled name is how an invented one gets published. Source changes are marked where they occur.
We find here a reason why so large a proportion of our settlers became permanent residents. In other counties many families soon passed to regions further west. They A\ere a restless, adventuresome class that loved frontier life. They followed the Indians and the deer to the setting sun until the ocean stopped them. They filled a gap between savagery and civilization, and helped prepare for the permanent settler. But Elkhart county had compars^tively few of these. Here the conditions were dififerent. There was no such gap to be filled. The Indians were not so savage, and nature was not so \\ ild. In general the settlers were of excellent stock and of sterling character - just such stuff as states and empires are made of. And when we consider the firm integrity and- remarkable ability of our early settlers we cannot but feel hopeful and confident for the future, as well as pleased for the past and present of Elkhart county.
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Text from A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Elkhart County, Indiana, published 1905, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive.