The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... kind of midday gloaming . Those who had lived in the open plains felt when they came to the backwoods as if their heads were hooded . Save on the border of a lake , from a cliff top , or on a bald knob that is , a bare hill- shoulder ...
... kind of midday gloaming . Those who had lived in the open plains felt when they came to the backwoods as if their heads were hooded . Save on the border of a lake , from a cliff top , or on a bald knob that is , a bare hill- shoulder ...
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... kind made him feel cramped and ill at ease . So he moved ever westward with the frontier ; and as Kentucky filled up he crossed the Mis- sissippi and settled on the borders of the prairie country of Missouri , where the Spaniards , who ...
... kind made him feel cramped and ill at ease . So he moved ever westward with the frontier ; and as Kentucky filled up he crossed the Mis- sissippi and settled on the borders of the prairie country of Missouri , where the Spaniards , who ...
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... kind which was but a long holiday . At nightfall they camped by the boats on the river bank . Each day some of the party spent in hunt- ing , either along the river bottoms through the groves of cottonwoods with shimmering , rustling ...
... kind which was but a long holiday . At nightfall they camped by the boats on the river bank . Each day some of the party spent in hunt- ing , either along the river bottoms through the groves of cottonwoods with shimmering , rustling ...
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... kind , the black- tail of the Columbia . In March , 1806 , they started eastward to retrace their steps . They had done a great deed , for they had opened the door into the heart of the far West . IV . THE FALL OF THE ALAMO1 DAVID ...
... kind , the black- tail of the Columbia . In March , 1806 , they started eastward to retrace their steps . They had done a great deed , for they had opened the door into the heart of the far West . IV . THE FALL OF THE ALAMO1 DAVID ...
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... kind to which he had given his name . Then these fell too , and the last man stood at bay . It was old Davy Crockett . Wounded in a dozen places , he faced his foes with his back to the wall , ringed around by the bodies of the men he ...
... kind to which he had given his name . Then these fell too , and the last man stood at bay . It was old Davy Crockett . Wounded in a dozen places , he faced his foes with his back to the wall , ringed around by the bodies of the men he ...
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