The Story of Beaumont (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Story of BeaumontFor this man and his wife were pioneers of the truest type. Westward, always westward, they set their faces, their eyes wooed by the rosy tints of the setting sun. From the bellow of the Atlantic's surf on North Carolina's shore they had set forth as bride and groom to make their way into the far west. By slow stages, tarrying now a few days, now 'a year, while they planted and harvested a crop, they met and subdued the trials of the fron tier, and moved steadily onward toward the then little-known regions of the far southwest.As they set out upon their journey westward from Natchitoches, they entered upon the last and most difficult stage of their migration, and it was many months later that they finally halted upon the eastern bank of the. N eches river and hailed the lone ferryman on the western shore of the stream.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.