HARDSCRABBL
{"newspaper_name": "Arkansas intelligencer.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
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This is the name Of an agricultural settlement.
on tho waters Of the Arkansas river, near the
base of the Rocky Mountains. 1t consists Of about
% families, old trappers aEd hunters. who have
built houses and devoted themselves, to agriculture. G..
They all have Indian wives of the Snake tribe.
they being much preferred 10 the Indians of the
plains who are nearest to them. They raise con.
siderable quantities Of corn, which they trado to
the Indians for furs. robes and other articles
The Indians Parch the corn and bruse ard pound
|, into meal in skin bags and then make bread
out OF 1t. The setlIers in .Hardscrabbe have no
mills except few Indifferent hand mills with
which they grind corn for thsis owuusc. These
men are very expert rlilemen well pruclised in
Indian usage and warfare, ,nnd consider themselves
fully competent 10 defend themselves against aii
the Indian tribes of that region. if they should be
attacked by them. They live rough. romantic
life. but are hosptabIe to those who visit them or
pass through their settlement.


Is there man with soul so dead.


That never to himself has said


This Is my own, my native land ~


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