Take another look at the quotation, and then answer the question.


What is the main purpose of this quote?


To explain why so few people lived on the Great Plains


To encourage people to settle in Texas


To encourage the government to buy the Louisiana Territory.

It spreads forth into undulating and treeless plains and desolate sandy wastes . … It is a land where no man permanently abides, for at certain seasons of the year there is no food for the hunter or his steed.


— Washington Irving

1836