Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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Familiar Scenes ' IEIQIS was a land of wide prairies and wide s y . . . Winter came down from the icy lakes with bitter winds and mighty storms of snow, and all the dark months the land lay blanketed with it, deep and white and lonely. Then there were days when a warmer breeze blew from the south. The snow turned to slush in the sun, and on the plains the tough Indian grass thrust upward through the softened earth. Wildflowers sprung up, fragile greenery appeared upon the trees. In the wooded bottomlands a new life was awakened with the rustle and stir of wild things. Summer came. Here on the site of, your city roamed herds of buffalo and deer, here lived the smaller beasts of field and forest-raccoon, mink, otter, wolf, rabbit and squirrel. There were, too, quail, pheasants, wild duck and geese and wild turkey,-targets for twanging bow and feathered arrow. For long before the white man came to the banks of the Sangamon, Indians found it good hunting ground. They belonged to the Algonquin family, and were called by the French, Illinois. The first settler of Springfield was John Kelly of North Carolina, who in 1819 built a log cabin near what is now Second and jefferson Streets. Away from it, says Carl Sandburg in his Abraham Lin- coln, swept the rolling prairie a mile east and west, a half mile north and south, bordered on the north by heavy timber and on the south by growths of pin-oak, elm, cherry, and hackberry, with fringes of plum, crab-apple, and haw trees, besides hazel brush and blackberry bushes, festoons of grapevines and winding strawberry runners. It was a wild country, but a country good for living.

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