Excerpt from A Trip to Manitoba: Or, Roughing It on the Line It is one of the peculiarities of life in this "New World" that railways, which were first desired as a means of more readily carrying traffic already existing between towns, or entrepots of trade already built up, have come with us to be used as a means of settling the wilderness. The backwoodsmen of forty years ago looked forward hopefully to the time when, his settlement having become populous and important enough, he might reasonably expect the extension of the railway system to his doors. The settler of to-day is unwilling to take up lands which are not within easy distance of at least a projected railway, if not one in course of construction. 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.

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