The Cabin on the Prairie

«If you stay here long, you will become so Westernized that you will lose all love for New England. That's my experience.» So said a brawny pioneer, a man of large mind, and generous heart, and a sledge-hammer fist that never struck a coward's blow; but when swung in defence of the right was like «the jaw-bone» of Samson to the Philistines. He had emigrated from Maine twenty years before, and was one of the first settlers I met on the prairie near the scene of my story. Was his predi