Explore "Life on the Mississippi, Part 12" by Mark Twain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
FROM St. Louis northward there are all the enlivening signs of the presence of active, energetic, intelligent, prosperous, practical nineteenth-century populations. The people don't dream, they work. The happy result is manifest all around in the substantial outside aspect of things, and the suggestions of wholesome life and comfort that everywhere appear.
Quincy is a notable example -- a brisk, handsome, well-ordered city; and now, as formerly, interested in art, letters, and other high things.