The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-04
FIRES ON THE PRAIRIE.
Nothing in Mature Equal Them.
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forests in northern Michigan an,
Wisconsin, other recent fires tina
swept across areas Of prairie lands il
Manitoba and North Dakota and still
other Gres that burned over sQuar'
miles among the R.cky Mountains
have revived a train Of "reminiscences
among the old-time plainsmen ou
this way concerning their own expert
ences in great prairie fires two O
three decades ago. One who hal
never seen . prairie FIRE such as usec
every fall to dsyassate the plains from
the Missouri river to the Rocky
Mountains and from the Rio Grande
to Central British America can have
no idea what such enormous conaagra-
lions were. Noone has yet adequate.
~ described the frigh.ful solemnity,
the grandeur and the awfulness Of q
seaof lurid flames. tens Of thousands
Of acres broad, rolling, tossing aud
rushing forward like an enraged IL
tanic monster and leaving In the trail
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