Excerpt from Life in the World's Wonderland: Illustrated; A Graphic Description of the Great Northwest, From St. Paul, Minnesota, to the Land of the Midnight Sun; Including the Lakes and Forests of Minnesota; The Wheat-Fields and Stock Ranches of Dakota MY dear unknown, - This letter introduces to you my Life in the World's Wonderland, a larger portion of which has never seen the light before. That its descriptions are at best imperfect no one will know better than myself. They have no special merit to commend them to your favor. They cannot be termed scientific, historic, geographic, or biographic. Two classes are interested in the World's Wonderland which I have here attempted to describe. Those who have visited it and those who have not. If each of these reads my book it is all that I can expect. In this letter I wish to acknowledge the special obliga tions which I have incurred in the preparation of this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.