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smooth-haired antelope will be replaced by countless 

 flocks of woolly sheep ; and the barren prairies, now 

 covered with the short buffalo grass, yellow sunflower, 

 and prickly cactus, barely sufficient .to support the 

 wild denizens of the Plains, will under cultivation teem 

 with yellow harvests of wheat and corn, providing food 

 for millions ; so that in a few years the only remini- 

 scence of the Eed Men will be the preservation of the 

 names of some of the extinct tribes and dead chiefs in 

 the nomenclature of the leading cities, counties, and States 

 of the Great West. 



WILLIAM BLACKMORE. 



LONDON : October 5, 1876. 



