The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestCollier, 1889 |
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... forests a century before . Yet the points of resemblance were far more nu- merous and striking . We guarded our herds of branded cattle and shaggy horses , hunted bear , bison , elk , and deer , established civil government , and put ...
... forests a century before . Yet the points of resemblance were far more nu- merous and striking . We guarded our herds of branded cattle and shaggy horses , hunted bear , bison , elk , and deer , established civil government , and put ...
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... forests conquering and to con- quer . For century after century they swarmed out of the dark woodland east of the Rhine , and north of the Danube ; and as their force spent itself , the movement was taken up by their brethren who dwelt ...
... forests conquering and to con- quer . For century after century they swarmed out of the dark woodland east of the Rhine , and north of the Danube ; and as their force spent itself , the movement was taken up by their brethren who dwelt ...
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... forests , and impenetrable , in- terminable morasses , a European civilization more ancient than any in the English colonies was mould- ering in slow decay . Its capital city was quaint St. Augustine , the old walled town that was ...
... forests , and impenetrable , in- terminable morasses , a European civilization more ancient than any in the English colonies was mould- ering in slow decay . Its capital city was quaint St. Augustine , the old walled town that was ...
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... forest . Throughout the interior the painted savages roved at will , uncontrolled by Span- iard or Englishman , owing allegiance only to the White Chief of Tallasotchee.1 St. Augustine , with its British garrison and its Spanish and ...
... forest . Throughout the interior the painted savages roved at will , uncontrolled by Span- iard or Englishman , owing allegiance only to the White Chief of Tallasotchee.1 St. Augustine , with its British garrison and its Spanish and ...
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... forests wherein they had always dwelt - they knew not what to call them , and bor- rowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants . The great prairies , level or rolling , stretched from north to south , separated by broad ...
... forests wherein they had always dwelt - they knew not what to call them , and bor- rowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants . The great prairies , level or rolling , stretched from north to south , separated by broad ...
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