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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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given up tocotton and tobacco. Florida had not then even dreamed of her wonderfuldevelopments in orange culture. In Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, andthe great Northwest, where now there are fruit plantations of almost unpar-alleled extent, only the first trees and plants were being set, and it was onlythought possible that some day fruits could be produced in abundance there.The Rocky Mountain and Pacific States had scarcely been heard of, even asTerritories, and only an occasional plantation of vines and trees around somemission station could be found. The Age of Triumph. — At the close of the Civil War, which had some-what distracted the attention of our people both North and South from theprogress of the peaceful arts, there was a great expansion of our rural popu-lation. The love of travel had taken possession of many who had been inthe armies. They were no longer content with the narrow boundaries andthe poor lands of the old Eastern farms. They wanted new fields for their
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COCOANUT THEE, PALM BEACH, FLA. 474 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY energies. The building of the great railroad systems across the continentsolved the question of the settlement of the Far West/ and the mythical American Desert that was supposed to lie this side of it. The prairieswere covered with homesteaders shanties, sod houses, and dug-outs. Theforests of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and Arkansas fell be-fore the axe of the pioneer. The Boys in Blue who had seen the naturaladvantages of the Southern States, while there on the dread errand of war,began the rehabilitation of the country they had helped to devastate. Theytook with them their Yankee notions and Western vim, and planted manykinds of farm crops, trees, vines, and berry bushes upon the old plantationswhere little else than cotton and tobacco used to grow. Florida was veri-tably turned into a garden of orange trees and truck patches. The chocolatehills and rich black lands of Texas were planted to

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