No problem on the copyright issue, I was planning to put the book on Project Gutenberg anyway. Just didn't realized how long it would take!
There is a link at the end of the third paragraph in the original post.

Most of us don't realize how hard it was for those pioneers. Just imagine carrying a 50 lb. sack of flour on your back over a mile through tall prairie grass. Or asking your neighbor to ride over 60 miles on horseback to find whiskey to treat a snake bite.

"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil"

-- Sheikh Zaki Yamani