The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestCharles Scribner's Sons, 1889 - 19 pages V. 1, 2, 3, 4 -- The winning of the West. v. 5, 6 -- The naval war of 1812. v. 7 -- Hunting the grisly and other sketches. v. 8 -- The wilderness hunter. v. 9 -- Hunting trips of a ranchman; Hunting trips on the Prairies and in the mountains. v. 10 -- American ideals; Administration-civil service. v. 12 -- The strenuous life. v. 13, 14, 15, 16 -- Presidential addresses and state papers. |
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... settlers ; papers of Boone , and George Rogers Clark ; MS . notes on Kentucky by George Bradford , who set- tled there in 1779 ; MS . copy of the record book of Col. John Todd , the first governor of the Illinois country after Clark's ...
... settlers ; papers of Boone , and George Rogers Clark ; MS . notes on Kentucky by George Bradford , who set- tled there in 1779 ; MS . copy of the record book of Col. John Todd , the first governor of the Illinois country after Clark's ...
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... settlers were thrust forth upon its shores . These sometimes displaced and sometimes merely overcame and lived among the natives . They also , to their own lasting harm , committed a crime whose shortsighted folly was worse than guilt ...
... settlers were thrust forth upon its shores . These sometimes displaced and sometimes merely overcame and lived among the natives . They also , to their own lasting harm , committed a crime whose shortsighted folly was worse than guilt ...
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... settlers of northwestern Cana- da had their main difficulties . In what now forms the United States , taking the country as a whole , the foes who had to be met and overcome were very much more formidable . The ground had to be not only ...
... settlers of northwestern Cana- da had their main difficulties . In what now forms the United States , taking the country as a whole , the foes who had to be met and overcome were very much more formidable . The ground had to be not only ...
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... settlers were for a hundred years con- fined to a narrow strip of sea - coast . Against the Spaniards , there were even here and there Indian nations who definitely recovered the ground they had lost . When the whites first landed , the ...
... settlers were for a hundred years con- fined to a narrow strip of sea - coast . Against the Spaniards , there were even here and there Indian nations who definitely recovered the ground they had lost . When the whites first landed , the ...
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... settlers merely taking possession of what the whole country guaranteed them . The Northwest is essen- tially a national domain ; it is fitting that it should be , as it is , not only by position but by feeling , the heart of the nation ...
... settlers merely taking possession of what the whole country guaranteed them . The Northwest is essen- tially a national domain ; it is fitting that it should be , as it is , not only by position but by feeling , the heart of the nation ...
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5th Series Alleghanies American Archives attack backwoods backwoodsmen bands battle blood Boone Boone's Boonesborough border British buffalo cabin camp Campbell MSS Capt Cherokees Chickasaws chief Choctaws colonies command Cornstalk Creeks Cresap Cumberland Daniel Boone deeds Department MSS dians Dragging Canoe Dunmore dwelt English fight foes forest French frontier frontiersmen George Rogers Clark ground Haywood Henderson horses Huguenot hundred hunters hunting Indians Iroquois Isaac Shelby John Kanawha Kentucky killed land letter Lewis lived Logan Lord Dunmore's Lord Dunmore's war McAfee MSS miles mountains murder names nation neighbors North Carolina Northwestern Oconostota Ohio party peace Pennsylvania pioneers Pontiac's war race rifle River Robertson savages scalps settled settlements settlers Sevier Shawnees Shelby South speech Tennessee tion took tories towns traders treach treaty tribes troops tucky valley Virginia warriors Watauga West Western whites wild wilderness woods wounded wrong Wyandots young