Author: Louise Wilhelmina Mears

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Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9781331197379

Excerpt from The Story of Nebraska (the Tree Planter's State) Hymn to Nebraska Now laud the proud tree planter state, Nebraska, - free, enlightened, great; Her royal place she has in song; The noblest strains to her belong; Her fame is sure. Then sing Nebraska through the years; Extol her stalwart pioneers; The days when, staunch and unafraid, The state's foundations well they laid, To long endure. The land where Coronado trod, And brave Marquette surveyed the sod; Where Red Men long in council sat; Where spread the valleys of the Platte Far 'neath the sun. The land, beside whose borders sweep The big Missouri's waters deep, Whose course erratic, through its sands, From north land on, through many lands, Does seaward run. The foothills of the Rockies lie Afar athwart her western sky: Her rolling prairie, like the sea, Held long in virgin sanctity Her fertile loam. Her wild-life roamed o'er treeless plains, Till came the toiling wagon-trains; And settlers bold, far westward bound, In broad Nebraska's valleys found Their chosen home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.