Author: | Catholic Colonization Bureau of Minnesota | ISBN: | 9781486483532 |
Publisher: | Emereo Publishing | Publication: | March 8, 2013 |
Imprint: | Emereo Publishing | Language: | English |
Author: | Catholic Colonization Bureau of Minnesota |
ISBN: | 9781486483532 |
Publisher: | Emereo Publishing |
Publication: | March 8, 2013 |
Imprint: | Emereo Publishing |
Language: | English |
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Catholic Colonization in Minnesota Revised Edition. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
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It is not individual success alone we can point to, but likewise the success of whole farming communities, where the people commenced poor—many of them, perhaps the majority, with scarcely any means at all—under disadvantages that would now appear to us, with railroads and markets on every side, almost insurmountable, and where to-day we cannot find one exceptional case of failure without an exceptional cause for it. ...They had to steer their way with the compass, over trackless prairies, often while the snow lay upon the ground, to blaze their way through the forest or follow an Indian trail, carrying their provisions on their backs, and when the claim shanty was put up and the provisions exhausted, the new settler would often have to return twenty, forty, sixty miles to some place where he could buy a few more pounds of flour, and with this and perhaps half a bushel of potatoes to put in the ground, he would again set off to his new claim.
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Catholic Colonization in Minnesota Revised Edition. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Catholic Colonization Bureau of Minnesota, which is now, at last, again available to you.
Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Catholic Colonization in Minnesota Revised Edition in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, ereader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.
Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Catholic Colonization in Minnesota Revised Edition:
Look inside the book:
It is not individual success alone we can point to, but likewise the success of whole farming communities, where the people commenced poor—many of them, perhaps the majority, with scarcely any means at all—under disadvantages that would now appear to us, with railroads and markets on every side, almost insurmountable, and where to-day we cannot find one exceptional case of failure without an exceptional cause for it. ...They had to steer their way with the compass, over trackless prairies, often while the snow lay upon the ground, to blaze their way through the forest or follow an Indian trail, carrying their provisions on their backs, and when the claim shanty was put up and the provisions exhausted, the new settler would often have to return twenty, forty, sixty miles to some place where he could buy a few more pounds of flour, and with this and perhaps half a bushel of potatoes to put in the ground, he would again set off to his new claim.