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But the Happy family did not worry over that seeing there was a margin of safety. Nor did they worry over the outcome of the matter. With the Homeseekers' Syndicate in extremely bad repute, and with fully half of the colonists homeless and disgusted, why should they worry over their own ultimate success?
Also they had watched with keen interest which was something more vital than mere curiosity developments where the homeseekers were concerned, and had not given very much thought to their next step, except in a purely general way.
By and large, the building of the West was to be the work, not of colonizing companies or other corporate interests, but of individual homeseekers, moving into the new country on their own responsibility and settling where and when their own interests and inclinations led.
After 1815 New England emigration rose to astonishing proportions, and an increasing number of the homeseekers passed directly or after a sojourn in the Lower Lake country of New York into the Northwest. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 made the westward journey easier and cheaper.
The Wisconsin oak openings were a summer paradise for song birds, and a fine place to get acquainted with them; for the trees stood wide apart, allowing one to see the happy homeseekers as they arrived in the spring, their mating, nest-building, the brooding and feeding of the young, and, after they were full-fledged and strong, to see all the families of the neighborhood gathering and getting ready to leave in the fall.
Not until after 1830 did the stalwart homeseekers penetrate north of Detroit; the great stretches of prairie between Lakes Erie and Michigan, and to the south left quite untouched by Southern pioneers satisfied every desire of these restless farmers from New England. For a long time Southerners determined the course of history in the Old Northwest.
"Now, gentlemen," concluded the lecturer, still in his brisk, time-saving style, "the weekly excursion to Lucky will take place to-morrow. One fare both ways to homeseekers. Free carriages to the Lands. Grand free open-air lunch under the spreading sycamores and by the babbling brook. Train leaves at seven-thirty." In full sight of all he threw the packet of tickets into a hat and drew one. "Mr.
But if you are, old boy, I'm going to take it outa your hide and don't you forget that." He grinned at his own mental predicament. "Honest, Andy, is this some josh, or do you mean it?" "By gracious, I wish it was a josh! But it ain't, darn it. In about two weeks or so you'll all see the point of this joke but whether the joke's on us or on the homeseekers' Syndicate depends on you fellows. Lord!
To extend the warm, western hand of fellowship to the Homeseekers and find out where they came from, what their business was, and how much money they had was a pleasure to which the citizens of Crowheart had long looked forward, but also it was a pleasure and a duty to walk down the Main street in white cotton gloves and strange habiliments, following the new hearse.
He chronicles events which happened in 1846 a date before the discovery of gold in California. The Donner Party was one of the typical American caravans of homeseekers who started for the Pacific Slope with no other purpose than that of founding homes there, and with no expectation of sudden wealth to be gained in the mines.
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