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Excerpt from The Yankee and the Teuton in Wisconsin But if the Germans declined the role of foresters, by refusing to settle in a partially isolated town like Eagle, the Yankees did the same. New Yorkers and New England ers were scarcer there than Prussians or Hanoverians. The town was occupied mainly by families from Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana - with a few from Virginia and North Carolina; in short, by men who had enjoyed or endured a recent experience as frontiersmen in heavily wooded regions. So many belonged to the class described by Eggles ton in The Circuit Rider, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, and The Graysons, that the name Hoosier Hollow, applied to one of the coulees, seems perfectly normal. To the Yankee, we may be sure, the heavy woods in the town Of Eagle were a sufficient deterrent to settlement there. The Germans shunned it either because they dis liked heavy clearing when it could be avoided and when no compensating advantages Offered, as was the case near the lake shore; or because they disliked the risk and the expense of crossing the river to market; or for both of these reasons combined. Probably either reason, singly, would have sufficed. 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.