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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

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Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

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Ellsworth Huntington

Ellsworth Huntington
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Born: September 16, 1876
Died: October 17, 1947 (aged 71)
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