Biography of Schuyler Ransom
…he began to break raw prairie, and he turned many hundred acres of sod, working hard to obtain the means to get a good start as a farmer. He also drove a team all over the northern part of the State, his principal route being from Chicago to Galena and to Dubuque, Iowa. He thus had a good opportunity to see the country while much of it was still in its primitive wildness, with but few signs of the coming civilization, and he can compare its past with its present condition as a witness of the wonderful change that has…