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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

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Die Region westlich des Mississippi war nach wie vor in der Bevölkerung ein fremdes Land, für das die Berichte von Entdeckern und Reisenden die Fiktion leisteten, und Cooper's Prairie hatte wenige Anhänger.

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