In fulfilling its manifest destiny, the West has undertaken the greatest and most splendid enterprise in the world—the upbuilding of Man. It is doing for the world what the world needs most. It is producing a great people. The sentiment of it has been expressed in eloquent terms by the late Henry Grady, “A citizen,” he said, “standing in the doorway of his home, contented on his own threshold, his family gathered about him, while the evening of a well-spent day closes in scenes that are dearest,—he shall save the republic when the drum tap is futile and the barracks are deserted.” This pregnant sentence epitomizes the final chapter of our Romance of the Desert, as it is now being written in the arid West.
PRODUCTS OF THE DESERT
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
| RECLAIMING THE ARID WEST | By George Wharton James |
| UNCLE SAM’S OUTDOOR MAGIC | By P. K. Fitzhugh |
DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY THE U. S. RECLAMATION SERVICE AND DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
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