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They call Illinois flat.

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The plains.

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The prairie lands.

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But to the northwest, there is another land.

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Toward the Mississippi, toward the Wisconsin foothills, there's a land as unspoiled as

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the frontier once was, and as rich and rolling as it was to the first explorers.

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This is a land for new beginnings.

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This is the Galena territory.

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And this is the Galena territory.

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It's a fair land, more than 6,500 acres of the fairest land in Illinois.

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With masses of forests, great ridges, crusted with rock, deep gorges, hidden valleys, endless

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views of meadows and rangeland.

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Open land, with streams and ponds and a lake, thriving with wildlife.

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This is the Galena territory.

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This is the Galena territory.

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And this is the Galena territory.

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It's a land that looks much as it did a thousand years ago.

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Primitive, timeless, and everlasting.

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It's a land that looks as if no one has ever set foot here, and yet for hundreds of years,

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man has walked this fair land.

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The Indians knew it and watched the rainfall on this earth.

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Explorers knew it, and frontiersmen and miners and river boatmen and railroaders all knew

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its seasons.

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Mark Twain did.

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So did Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant.

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The nation felt its imprint.

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Here a nation grew to manhood.

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And this is the Galena territory.

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It's that part of a man that must move on.

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It's that part that must roam and wander and go where none have gone before, beyond the

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communities, beyond the marked paths, beyond even his own limits, so he may find and set

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new ones.

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This is the Galena territory.

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And this too.

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It's that private land where a man can stand still and listen to stillness.

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It's where he can breathe free, where he can feel the good earth under him and know his

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searching is done.

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This is his own.

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He is home.

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He is at one.

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He knows that in all the flat, dry prairie lands of Illinois, he has found another land.

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He has found the Galena territory.

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The Galena territory.

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The Galena territory.

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The Galena territory.