Identifier: southernstatesof00kingrich (find matches)
Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ped from time to time, discouraged. Gangs of stout fellowsfrom Illinois and Missouri were marching along the highways, en route for therailroad lines which they were to aid in constructing; mule-teams, drawing loadsof lumber, each team driven by a six-foot Texan with a patriarchal beard, passedus; wild-looking men mounted on horses or mules, with rifles slung o\er shoul-ders, and saddle-bags stuffed with game, cantered by. i8o discourage:-) immigrants—tiii; square i: ;IIERMAN Somctimcs we met a discouraged company, painfully forcing its way backtoward sunrise, the paterfamilias driving a span of sorry mules which draggeda weary wagon-load of grumbling and disheartened family. So, faring forwardthrough forest and brake, over creeks and under hills, beside smiling fields andalong mournful wastes, into primitive clearings and out of forsaken nooks, andcrannies where civilization had only made the wilderness look worse, we reachedSherman, the forty-year-old shire town of Grayson county.
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The Public Square in Sherman, Texas. Glorious sunlight enlivened the town as we entered it, and intensest activityprevailed, the county court being in session. The town is built around a square,in the centre of which stands a low, unpainted wooden building, known as theCourt-IIousc. The grand jury was not far from the aforesaid building, as wedrew up at the hotel opposite it, and was to outward appearance a collection ofrough, sensible farmers, impressed with a full sense of their duty. The horses onwhich half-a-hundred of the neighboring farmers had ridden in to attend to theirmarketing and upon the sessions of the court, were hitched at a common hitch-ing frame not far from the court-house; and in the centre of the square a noisyauctioneer, whom the Texans were regarding with admiring eyes, was bawlingout his wares. The plank sidewalks were crammed with tall youths, in patchedhomespun; with negroes, whose clothing was a splendid epitome of color; with MIDWINTER IN TEXAS DENISON AS A

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