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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Page 39
... towns in 1779 we would probably never have had any North- west to settle ; and the huge tract between the upper Mississippi and the Columbia , then called Upper Louisiana , fell into our hands , only because the Kentuckians and ...
... towns in 1779 we would probably never have had any North- west to settle ; and the huge tract between the upper Mississippi and the Columbia , then called Upper Louisiana , fell into our hands , only because the Kentuckians and ...
Page 44
... town that was founded by the Spaniards long years before the keel of the Half - Moon furrowed the broad Hudson , or ... towns of Georgia and the Carolinas ; and she had to suffer from and repulse the retalia- tory inroads of the English ...
... town that was founded by the Spaniards long years before the keel of the Half - Moon furrowed the broad Hudson , or ... towns of Georgia and the Carolinas ; and she had to suffer from and repulse the retalia- tory inroads of the English ...
Page 49
... may have been over this . Any attempt to estimate this creole popu- lation perforce contains much guess - work . C VOL . V. called Illinois towns , the villages of Kaskaskia and Cahokia Spread of English - Speaking Peoples 49.
... may have been over this . Any attempt to estimate this creole popu- lation perforce contains much guess - work . C VOL . V. called Illinois towns , the villages of Kaskaskia and Cahokia Spread of English - Speaking Peoples 49.
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Theodore Roosevelt. called Illinois towns , the villages of Kaskaskia and Cahokia , with between them the little settlements of Prairie du Rocher and St. Philip.10 Both these groups of old French hamlets were in the fertile prairie ...
Theodore Roosevelt. called Illinois towns , the villages of Kaskaskia and Cahokia , with between them the little settlements of Prairie du Rocher and St. Philip.10 Both these groups of old French hamlets were in the fertile prairie ...
Page 58
... town they had great orchards of gnarled apple - trees , planted by their forefathers when they came from France , and old pear - trees , of a kind unknown to the Americans ; but their fields often lay untilled , while the owners lolled ...
... town they had great orchards of gnarled apple - trees , planted by their forefathers when they came from France , and old pear - trees , of a kind unknown to the Americans ; but their fields often lay untilled , while the owners lolled ...
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