History of the Red River Valley, Vol. 1 of 2: Past and Present, Including an Account of the Counties, Cities, Towns, and Villages of the Valley From the Time of Their First Settlement and Formation (C

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ISBN 10: 0332854221 / ISBN 13: 9780332854229

Published by Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Title: History of the Red River Valley, Vol. 1 of 2: Past and Present, Including an Account of the Counties, Cities, Towns, and Villages of the Valley From the Time of Their First Settlement and Formation (C
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0332854221
• ISBN 13: 9780332854229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Excerpt from History of the Red River Valley, Vol. 1 of 2: Past and Present, Including an Account of the Counties, Cities, Towns, and Villages of the Valley From the Time of Their First Settlement and Formation

Genuine history is brought into existence only when the historian begins to unravel, across the lapse of time, the living man, toiling, impassioned, entrenched in his customs, with his voice and features, his gestures and dress, distinct and complete as he from whom we have just parted in the street. A history of a people which has passed away is the effort to make the past the present; to revivify the dead and present every phase of actual life as it once existed, with all its bad and good, its bless ings and its sufferings; the home life, the public highway, the street, the field, men and women privately, collectively, at work and at play, socially and morally, as they once were here in the struggle for life. A picture most difficult, perhaps about impossi ble to draw. Hence, to approach this perfection in any respect, will make a valuable book, and one whose lessons will remain perpetually to the coming generations.

A history of a people must, therefore, carefully consider the race, the epoch, and the climate and soil and their combined effects in elucidating the causes, after the facts have been collated. Where the period of time covered by the story is short - only a little more than a generation - as in the history of this valley, the effects flowing out from these causes become shadowy and indistinct - more difficult to trace out and fix clearly to the view, in due ratio to the brevity of the period which comes within the purview of the writer.

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