Steep trails

Description:

Moral improvers have calls to preach. I have a friend who has a call to plough, and woe to the daisy sod or azalea thicket that falls under the savage redemption of his keen steel shares. Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestrial bog, rock, and moorland, he would fain discover some method of reclamation applicable to the ocean and the sky, that in due calendar time they might be brought to bud and blossom as the rose.

subjects: Classic Literature,  Description and travel,  Fiction,  Forests and forestry,  West (u.s.), description and travel

Places: Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain),  Shasta, Mount (Calif.),  West (U.S.)

Times: 1860-1880,  1880-1950