- West Fever Roald Tweet 2:53
This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. When John Soule advised his Indiana readers in 1851 to “Go West, young man,” a phrase Horace Greely later made famous, he was already writing after the fact. By then several hundred steamboats a month were streaming up the Mississippi past Rock Island and Davenport, loaded with young men—and women—with families from the East and the South, from Ireland and Norway, England and Germany heading west to the California gold fields or to the newly opened prairies of Minnesota and the Dakotas.
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