THREE PIONEERSHIPS 



all of those institutions that are necessary to 

 the civic life of a great community. You 

 can imagine how this pioneership must have 

 proceeded. Of course, there were no coun- 

 ties, towns, or surveys for such. Surveys 

 had to be made, and that was very difficult. 

 Here the material pioneership and the civil 

 pioneership went hand in hand. Then came 

 the making of laws, rules and regulations 

 for the civic life of the people, outlining 

 school districts and starting schools. After 

 little settlements had been made in one part 

 and another, those fragments had to be 

 brought together into counties; courts and 

 county governments had to be started, the 

 courts set running, obstacles to law and 

 order removed and such provisions made 

 that the people could have justice. 



It is a remarkable feature connected with 

 the colonization of America, that from the 

 very first the people insisted upon law and 

 order. In California a sort of anarchy 

 reigned for a time, because men were so far 

 from the seat of government. Throughout 

 the great Mississippi Valley when civiliza- 



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