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Card Number	1656
Source	The U.P. Trail
Notes	"Slingerland hated that great, shining steel band of progress connecting East and West. Every ringing sledge-hammer blow had sung out the death - knell of the trappers calling. This railroad spelled the end of the wilderness. What one group of greedy men had accomplished others would imitate; and the grass of the plains would be burned, the forests blackened, the fountain dried up in the valleys, and the wild creatures of the mountains driven and hunted and exterminated. The end of the buffalo had come - the end of the Indian was in sight - and that of the fur-bearing animal and his hunter must follow soon with the hurrying years. Slingerland hated the railroad, and he could not see; as Neale did, or any of the engineers or builders. This old trapper had the vision of the Indian...Progress was great, but nature undespoiled was greater. If a race could not breed all stronger men, through its great movements, it might better not breed any, for the bad over-multiplied the good, and so their needs magnified into greed. Slingerland saw many shining bands of steel across the plains and mountains, many stations and hamlets and cities, a growing and marvelous prosperity from timber, mines, farms, and in the distant end - a gutted West."
Page Number	406
Subject terms	Trapper and civilization; Railroad; Buffalo; Indian and civilization; Ecology vs. Progress; Conservation;
Creator	Wheeler, Joe
Contributors	Compiled by Joe Wheeler; Gift of Rex Maughan
Rights	Public domain; courtesy of L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

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