A Historical American English Accent in a Non-Fiction Book
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North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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I need not try to describe the grasshopper raid of 18 74 for the old timers remember it. And I could not picture the tragedy so that others could see it to see the suns raised dim by the flying agents of destruction to witness the disappearance of every vestige of green vegetation. The result of a year's labor which was to most of the inhabitants, the only resource against actual want to see this. I say one must live through it. Many of the early settlers were young people, newly married who had left their homes in the east with all their earthly possessions in a covered wagon or prairie schooner as it was called and making the trip over land had landed with barely enough money to exist until the first crop was harvested, added to the loss and privation entailed by the visitation of the winged host was the constant dread that the next season would bring a like scourge.