Though he saw his own face in the primeval mirror here held up to him, Franklin turned away.

It was sure to him that he must set his influence against this unorganized day of waste and riotousness.

He knew that this perfervid time could not endure, knew that the sweep of American civilization must occupy all this land as it had all the lands from the Alleghenies to the plains.

He foresaw in this crude new region the scene of a great material activity, a vast industrial development.

The swift action of the early days was to the liking of his robust nature, and the sweep of the cattle trade, sudden and unexpected as it had been, in no wise altered his original intention of remaining as an integer of this community.