The Westerners

To restore the latter, he should first of all sweep the ground bare of the buildings which nowadorn it, leaving, perhaps, here and there an isolated old shanty of boards far advanced towarddissolution. He would be called upon to substitute, in place of the brick stores and dwellings ofto-day, a motley collection of lean-tos, dug-outs, tents, and shacks, scattered broadcast over thevirgin prairie without the slightest semblance of order. Where the Oriole furniture factory nowstands, he must ...