When the Poet William Cullen Bryant Described the Vacant Illinois

When the poet William Cullen Bryant described the vacant Illinois prairie in the 1830s, he envisioned

A) Gardens and cultivated fields.
B) Pristine wilderness to be preserved from human contamination.
C) Rail splitter Abraham Lincoln just beginning his public life.
D) U. S. Grant preparing to leave for the Military Academy at West Point, New York.