Prairie Fires and Paper Moons by Hal Morgan and Andreas Brown

“People were new to each other. As late as 1850, a French artist did colored lithographs of New York that included temples, palaces, minarets, pagodas, and pyramids among the city buildings, and people wearing fezzes, coolie hats, Chinese gowns, saris and top hats. These views were made to calm the fears of Frenchmen coming to work America’s goldfields. At a lesser distance and likely a later time, New England fishermen were not absolutely certain what Ohio farmers looked like, as they peered curiously and somewhat suspiciously over the horizon at each other.”

-Hal Morgan and Andreas Brown, 1981