In fact, it is so up to the present time, being still a mining city.

Instead of being in any degree homogeneous, immigration flowed in from all parts of the earth; every considerable nation of Europe and all the States of our Union, were duly repre- sented.

The German liberalism, the New England puritan- ism and the Celtic nationalism mixed and mingled in all the elements of society.

But there is something in the charac- ter and habits of pioneers as they co-mingle amidst the grand and inspiring scenery of the west, with mutual inter- ests and sympathies combining, which naturally expands and enlarges the human faculties, though meeting for the first time in distant lands, and from different climes.

They soon learn to assimilate and conform to each other in their opinions; for there are a thousand interests and motives uniting to render it necessary for them to support each other in all the trials and scenes of border life.