We ought to look on the old range neither as a playground of idle men nor as a scene of hysterical and contorted human activities.

We ought to look upon it from the point of view of its uses to mankind.

The explorers found it a wilderness, the home of the red man and the buffalo.

What were the underlying causes of its settlement and development?
There is in history no agency so wondrous in events, no working instrumentality so great as transportation.

The great seeking of all human life is to find its level.