Pioneers

I have been called a pioneer.  In my book, a pioneer is a man who comes to a virgin country, traps off all the fur, kills off all the wild meat, cuts down all the trees, grazes off all the grass, plows the roots up, and strings ten million miles of wire.  A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.  I wish to God this country was just like it was when I first saw it and that none of you folks were here at all.
—     Charles Marion Russell
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