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Title: Letters of a Dakota Divorcee

Author: Jane Burr

Release Date: August 18, 2008 [EBook #26344]

Language: English

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Letters of

A Dakota Divorcee

_By Jane Burr_

BOSTON

THE ROXBURGH PUBLISHING CO.

INCORPORATED

COPYRIGHTED 1909

BY THE ROXBURGH PUBLISHING COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO
MY SIOUX FALLS FRIENDS.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

This little volume will soon assume the proportions of an invaluable
reference book as the Divorcee is gradually becoming extinct in South
Dakota.

Species may thrive in a given latitude and longitude for ages. Suddenly
the atmospheric, climatic, or diatetic conditions become so altered as
to preclude the further development of the species--yes even the further
survival of the animal. The result may be either of two alternatives:

1st. The animal finding the habitat no longer conducive to its well
being may migrate singly or in bunches to another environment. In this
case scientists have noted that the animal undergoes a considerable
morphological and physiological change.

2nd. In an environment unfavorable to its existence an animal may become
extinct.

In the case of the South Dakota Divorcee the former alternative would
seem to be the course followed, for up to date the animal has shown
itself to be quite too resourceful to lapse into that most archaic
condition--extinctness.

Time was when it roamed the prairies and hills of the State in vast
herds, but owing to the removal of the protective underbrush in the form
of the Referendum (which decrees that one year is necessary for its
complete development), it has gone in great droves to Nevada and
Oklahoma, which promise to be a more suitable environment for it.

There are a few rare species left, but they are disconsolate and
hang-jawed and