Excerpt from "Uncle Sam's" Cabins: A Story of American Life, Looking Forward a Century The mist lay dense upon the face of the earth that April morning, 1994, concealing the bending figure of a woman, as she pushed aside the fast disappearing snow in her search for the first appearing dandelion, fresh and crisp, clinging close to the warm earth, beneath its white and frosty blanket. The woman, rising from her hunt in the snow, stood erect, raising her head and shoulders above the low-lying mist, as mountains lift their heads above humid clouds, disclosing a face of pathetic beauty, accentuated by the total absence of even an attempt at personal adornment. 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.