The Traveller's Whereabout--The Prairie in a Mist--Sense of
Loneliness--The Backwoods Farmhouse--Structure--Outline--
Western Roads--A New-England Emigrant--The "Barrens"--Origin
of Name--Soil--The "Sink-holes"--The Springs--Similar in
Missouri and Florida--"Fount of Rejuvenescence"--Ponce de
Leon--"Sappho's Fount"--The Prairies--First View--The Grass--
Flowers--Island-groves--A Contrast--Prairie-farms--A Buck
and Doe--A Kentucky Pioneer--Events of Fifty Years--The
"Order Tramontane"--Expedition of Gov. Spotswood--The Change--
A Thunderstorm on the Prairies--"A Sharer in the Tempest"--
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