Calvin Colton Quote

There, in the Mississippi Valley, beyond a question, and in a very brief time, will be cities and towns to rival any in the world in population, in commercial enterprise, and in the production of art, in the refinements of cultivated life and manners, and I fear, in luxury.

Manual for Emigrants to America, 1832

There, in the Mississippi Valley, beyond a question, and in a very brief time, will be cities and towns to rival any in the world in population, in...

There, in the Mississippi Valley, beyond a question, and in a very brief time, will be cities and towns to rival any in the world in population, in...

There, in the Mississippi Valley, beyond a question, and in a very brief time, will be cities and towns to rival any in the world in population, in...

There, in the Mississippi Valley, beyond a question, and in a very brief time, will be cities and towns to rival any in the world in population, in...