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 WRITTEN BY FANNIE E. CHENOWETH 
 
 ILLUSTRATED BY ANNIE RYCKMAN 
 
 PRINTED BY E, C. O'NEIL 
 
 KALISPELL 
 
 MONTANA 
 
 1914 
 
 ©CI.A380089 
 
 Copyrighted August, 1914 
 
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"^^pOU czme to this country long years 
 
 Up rivers which flow to the Mexico, 
 To this western land now the nations* 
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 Where the Mountains are high—and the 
 Valleys wide. 
 
OU felled the trees and turned the 
 
 sod, 
 Builded homes for yourselves and to 
 your God. 
 These beautiful churches and school 
 
 houses fair 
 In valleys— on hillsides and everywhere. 
 
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HERE the war-whoop rang 
 
 is the whistle of trains 
 Over Mountains and Rivers 
 and fertile Plains. 
 Now grains and fruits and 
 produces rare 
 Blossom and flourish in 
 Montana air. 
 
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 ME white-faced cattle, 
 
 some year ago, 
 Took the place on the prairies 
 
 of the buffalo. 
 The Automobile and the Palace-car 
 Are bringing new settlers, 
 
 from near and far. 
 
 
 
HE Pioneer clays 
 are the days of old 
 
 When you dug your wealth 
 from the Mountains bold. 
 
 Now the farms with their products 
 lay vast stores 
 
 Of treasures like gold 
 at your very doors, 
 
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 !HE days of old and the days 
 of gold 
 Are passing away like a tale 
 that's told. 
 But their memory clings and lin- 
 gers till 
 It brighter grows on the western 
 hill. 
 
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 the trail of life 
 
 you have traveled far. 
 
 You have made a State 
 and now ajar 
 
 See the gates to the city 
 of love and light, 
 
 The City Beautiful, 
 where there is no night. 
 
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N the other side of this great divide ~~ _._z 
 Jj^gjlp Are the loved ones who journeyed by your 
 
 side 
 
 They joyously await as in days of yore 
 To welcome you home when the journey's o'er. 
 
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