The Wild Rose of the Beaver
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Leonhart, Rudolph) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Wild Rose of the Beaver: And Tononqua, the Pride of the Wyandots, Two Border Tales of the 18th Century NlNETY years ago! What a short period in the annals of the world, and yet how fraught with changes for the fair region now known to the geographer as Beaver county. Where schools and churches, where mills and factories, farms and villages now abound, ninety years ago not even the vestige of a building was to be seen. The river had not been dammed or spanned; the precious coal bed had not been tapped, nor the fertile field cleared. Indeed, one grand unbroken forest stretched from one end of the county to the other, and instead of the civilized white man, the dusky Indian, the greedy wolf, the blood-thirsty panther, and the awkward bear, thinly populated its sombre hills and valleys. Yet it was by no means void of beauty, only that this beauty in many places was of a serious, almost austere character. Through the dense foliage of its giant trees, and the denser one of its undergrowth, few sun rays found their cheering way, leaving fit haunts for poisonous serpents and beasts of prey underneath; but where rivers, creeks and runs intercepted the green canopy, the aspect was cheering enough. True, even here the forest strove for mastery, sending mighty tree tops obliquely over the water, or causing dense bushes to hang festoon-like into the clear flood; but the sun lit up the foliage to the brightness of burnished gold, and there was always enough of the limpid mirror left to reflect the azure of the sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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