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 32
... wrong ; but in any such calculation there is of necessity a large element of mere rough guess - work . Formerly writers greatly over - estimated their original numbers , counting them by millions . Now it is the fashion to go to the ...
... wrong ; but in any such calculation there is of necessity a large element of mere rough guess - work . Formerly writers greatly over - estimated their original numbers , counting them by millions . Now it is the fashion to go to the ...
Page 88
... wrong - doing on our part ; yet the Creeks themselves lacked only the power , but not the will , to treat us worse than we treated them , and the darkest pages of their history recite the wrongs that we ourselves suffered at their hands ...
... wrong - doing on our part ; yet the Creeks themselves lacked only the power , but not the will , to treat us worse than we treated them , and the darkest pages of their history recite the wrongs that we ourselves suffered at their hands ...
Page 108
... wrong - doing could have been prevented ; but if we examine the facts to find out the truth , not to estab- lish a theory , we are bound to admit that the strug- gle was really one that could not possibly have been avoided . The ...
... wrong - doing could have been prevented ; but if we examine the facts to find out the truth , not to estab- lish a theory , we are bound to admit that the strug- gle was really one that could not possibly have been avoided . The ...
Page 110
... wrong , for he knows perfectly well that the land is really owned by no one . It is never even visited , except perhaps for a week or two every year , and then the visitors are likely at any moment to be driven off by a rival hunting ...
... wrong , for he knows perfectly well that the land is really owned by no one . It is never even visited , except perhaps for a week or two every year , and then the visitors are likely at any moment to be driven off by a rival hunting ...
Page 114
... wrong Indi- ans , yet they tolerated for a long time the presence of men who did not scruple to boast that they stole horses from the latter ; while our peaceful neighbors , the Grosventres , like- wise permitted two notorious red ...
... wrong Indi- ans , yet they tolerated for a long time the presence of men who did not scruple to boast that they stole horses from the latter ; while our peaceful neighbors , the Grosventres , like- wise permitted two notorious red ...
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