He looked to see all the ways of the civilization he had left behind come duly hither to search him out.

He was not satisfied to abandon his law books for the saddle, but as yet there was no possibility of any practice in the law, though meantime one must live, however simply.

It was all made easy.

That wild Nature, which had erected rude barriers against the coming of the white man, had at her reluctant recession left behind the means by which the white man might prevail.

Even in the "first year" the settler of the new West was able to make his living.