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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... BACKWOODSMEN 1769-1774 OF THE ALLEGHANIES , VI . BOONE AND THE LONG HUNTERS ; AND THEIR HUNTING IN NO - MAN'S - LAND , 1769-1774 · VII . SEVIER , ROBERTSON , AND THE Watauga Com- MONWEALTH , 1769-1774 VIII . LORD DUNMORE'S WAR , 1774 ...
... BACKWOODSMEN 1769-1774 OF THE ALLEGHANIES , VI . BOONE AND THE LONG HUNTERS ; AND THEIR HUNTING IN NO - MAN'S - LAND , 1769-1774 · VII . SEVIER , ROBERTSON , AND THE Watauga Com- MONWEALTH , 1769-1774 VIII . LORD DUNMORE'S WAR , 1774 ...
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... backwoodsmen conquered it . Our rivals of European race had dwelt for generations along the lower Mississippi and the Rio Grande , in Florida , and in California , when we made them ours . Detroit , Vincennes , St. Louis , and New Or ...
... backwoodsmen conquered it . Our rivals of European race had dwelt for generations along the lower Mississippi and the Rio Grande , in Florida , and in California , when we made them ours . Detroit , Vincennes , St. Louis , and New Or ...
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... backwoodsmen , who knew nothing of shooting on the wing , and looked down on smooth- bores , caring only for the rifle , the true weapon of the freeman . In winter the creoles took their ne- groes to the hills , where they made tar from ...
... backwoodsmen , who knew nothing of shooting on the wing , and looked down on smooth- bores , caring only for the rifle , the true weapon of the freeman . In winter the creoles took their ne- groes to the hills , where they made tar from ...
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... backwoodsman clad in tattered homespun or buckskin . They remained the owners of the villages , the tillers of the soil . At first few English or American immigrants , save an occasional fur trader , came to live among them . But their ...
... backwoodsman clad in tattered homespun or buckskin . They remained the owners of the villages , the tillers of the soil . At first few English or American immigrants , save an occasional fur trader , came to live among them . But their ...
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... backwoodsmen . But they had kept many valuable qualities , and , in especial , they were brave and hardy , and , after their 32 " Journal of Jean Baptiste Perrault , " 1783 . 33 " Voyage en Amérique ” ( 1796 ) , Général Victor Collot ...
... backwoodsmen . But they had kept many valuable qualities , and , in especial , they were brave and hardy , and , after their 32 " Journal of Jean Baptiste Perrault , " 1783 . 33 " Voyage en Amérique ” ( 1796 ) , Général Victor Collot ...
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