The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestCollier, 1889 |
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... whole of western Canada was for a long time under the con- trol of the most powerful of all the fur companies , in whose employ were very many French voyageurs and coureurs des bois . From these there sprang up in the valleys of the Red ...
... whole of western Canada was for a long time under the con- trol of the most powerful of all the fur companies , in whose employ were very many French voyageurs and coureurs des bois . From these there sprang up in the valleys of the Red ...
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... whole does not consist of the sum of the parts ; for whereas we can check off on our fingers the tribes that have slightly increased , we can enumerate scores that have died out almost before our eyes . Speaking broadly , they have ...
... whole does not consist of the sum of the parts ; for whereas we can check off on our fingers the tribes that have slightly increased , we can enumerate scores that have died out almost before our eyes . Speaking broadly , they have ...
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... whole , it is not probable that much over half of the blood was English ; Dutch , French , Ger- man , and Gaelic communities abounded . But all were being rapidly fused into one people . As the Celt of Cornwall and the Saxon of Wessex ...
... whole , it is not probable that much over half of the blood was English ; Dutch , French , Ger- man , and Gaelic communities abounded . But all were being rapidly fused into one people . As the Celt of Cornwall and the Saxon of Wessex ...
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... 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 . North of the Ohio the regular army went ...
... 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 . North of the Ohio the regular army went ...
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... the Union ; but these settlements of Northerners were rendered possible only by the deeds of the nation as a whole . They entered on land that the Southerners had won , and they were kept there by Spread of English - Speaking Peoples 39.
... the Union ; but these settlements of Northerners were rendered possible only by the deeds of the nation as a whole . They entered on land that the Southerners had won , and they were kept there by Spread of English - Speaking Peoples 39.
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