Post by Sasquatch on Mar 28, 2013 19:16:52 GMT -5
My brother sent me this. Wouldn't it have been something to see?
Historian Charles Roll described the landscape in Indiana Territory in
1800 as “a laid-back, pathless wilderness.” He said:
“perhaps nowhere could America show more magnificent forests of
deciduous trees than existed in the valleys, particularly, of the Wabash
and Whitewater. They attained a size and height unknown in Europe. Among
the most common trees found here were oak, ash, hickory, maple, beech,
elm, walnut, sycamore, locust, buckeye, and tulip poplar. Some of these
trees grew to such an enormous size that they compared favorably with
the redwood trees of California. There were also many smaller trees and
shrubs, some of which produced wild fruit and nuts in great abundance,
which furnished food for the pioneers.”
The woods abounded with deer. Elk roamed in many places. Bears and
wolves were numerous. Wild turkeys and ducks swarmed in the woods and
among the swamps.
Historian Charles Roll described the landscape in Indiana Territory in
1800 as “a laid-back, pathless wilderness.” He said:
“perhaps nowhere could America show more magnificent forests of
deciduous trees than existed in the valleys, particularly, of the Wabash
and Whitewater. They attained a size and height unknown in Europe. Among
the most common trees found here were oak, ash, hickory, maple, beech,
elm, walnut, sycamore, locust, buckeye, and tulip poplar. Some of these
trees grew to such an enormous size that they compared favorably with
the redwood trees of California. There were also many smaller trees and
shrubs, some of which produced wild fruit and nuts in great abundance,
which furnished food for the pioneers.”
The woods abounded with deer. Elk roamed in many places. Bears and
wolves were numerous. Wild turkeys and ducks swarmed in the woods and
among the swamps.
