The same story now was being written on the frontier of the Plains.
But in the passing of this last frontier the type of the land-seeking man, the type of the American, began to alter distinctly.

The million dead of our cruel Civil War left a great gap in the American population which otherwise would have occupied the West and Northwest after the clearing away of the Indians.

For three decades we had been receiving a strong and valuable immigration from the north of Europe.

It was in great part this continuous immigration which occupied the farming lands of upper Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas.

Thus the population of the Northwest became largely foreign.