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The West - Tamed and Combed
Villard, Oswald Garrison | December 10, 1924 issue

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Those who wish to have all America exactly alike, who would blot out every distinction and difference between States, towns, and sections may take heart. They are nearing the time when one may drop down into Kansas City in a Zeppelin out of an early morning fog and fancy oneself in Cleveland or Worcester or Buffalo, or even Newark and see nothing in outward appearances to dispel the illusion. The West is growing old, and as it gets older it patterns more and more after the East--incredibly so. One's mind leaps back forty years. There were few fronts that were not false in those little frontier towns which, many of them, were nothing but gambling hells and worse.

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INDUSTRIAL engineering; AIRSHIPS; UNITED States -- Politics & government; KANSAS City (Kan.); KANSAS; UNITED States
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