Excerpt from The Conquest of Arid America
The man who removes from a crowded neighborhood in New England to a sparsely settled locality in tho Far West will be struck with the immensity of the country which awaits settlement and development. He will not be long in discovering that the new land possesses certain advantages of climate, soil, and other natural resources over the place whence he came. If he has the slightest interest in social and economic things, ho will find himself speculating on the anomaly of surplus people in one place and surplus land in another - on the stern fact of a region of landless man and a region of manless land, and both under the same flag. Such was the author's experience; hence this book.
Tho materials for this skotch have been gathered by ten years of life, work, and study in various parts of the West.
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