ace" are given at some length, and with minute description. The
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By no means least among the charms of the story are the vivid
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of the beauties of nature, as seen in the almost unbroken forests.
It is the spirit of the frontier which is described, and one can by
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braved every privation and danger that the westward progress of the
star of empire might be the more certain and rapid. A love story,
simple and tender, runs through the book.
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