The Region West Of The Mississippi Continued In The Popular Mind To Be A Strange Land For Which The Reports Of Explorers And Travellers Did The Work Of Fiction, And Cooper's Prairie Had Few Followers. - SearchQuotes

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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

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