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Those who have never traveled the width and length of this land cannot conceive, on the basis of textbook description alone, the overwhelming space and variety of this country held together under one government.

The miracle of democratic America comes home to one most strongly only when one has seen the endless Great Plains of the Midwest ; ;

the sky-reaching peaks of the Northwest mountains ; ;

the smoke-filled, art-filled, drama-filled life of the great cities of the East ; ;

the lush and historic charm of the South.

Now, to add to the already unbelievable extremes found in one nation, we have the two new states of Hawaii and Alaska.