The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt, with an Introduction by Robert Bridges ...C. Scribner's sons, 1909 - 197 pages |
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... Ranch Life and the Hunting - Trail ” by per- mission of The Century Co .; " The Heritage of Noble Deeds , " " Frontier Character , " " Daniel Boone , " and " The Grisly Bear " are from " American Ideals , " " The Winning of the West ...
... Ranch Life and the Hunting - Trail ” by per- mission of The Century Co .; " The Heritage of Noble Deeds , " " Frontier Character , " " Daniel Boone , " and " The Grisly Bear " are from " American Ideals , " " The Winning of the West ...
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... ranch and living the life of a cowboy was not the idle freak of a young man . He knew that States in the raw were being made out there in the West by the kind of men who had pushed the frontier of this country , through a hundred years ...
... ranch and living the life of a cowboy was not the idle freak of a young man . He knew that States in the raw were being made out there in the West by the kind of men who had pushed the frontier of this country , through a hundred years ...
Page 116
... ranch buildings on the top of Ket- tle Hill , I turned and went up the slope . Being on horseback I was , of course , able to get ahead of the men on foot , excepting my orderly , Hen- ry Bardshar , who had run ahead very fast in order ...
... ranch buildings on the top of Ket- tle Hill , I turned and went up the slope . Being on horseback I was , of course , able to get ahead of the men on foot , excepting my orderly , Hen- ry Bardshar , who had run ahead very fast in order ...
Page 124
... ranch - houses which we had just taken , driving the Spaniards through a line of palm - trees , and over the crest of a chain of hills . When we reached these crests we found ourselves overlooking Santiago . Some of the men , including ...
... ranch - houses which we had just taken , driving the Spaniards through a line of palm - trees , and over the crest of a chain of hills . When we reached these crests we found ourselves overlooking Santiago . Some of the men , including ...
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... ranch , so tame that they would stand looking at the hunter within fifty yards for sev eral minutes before taking flight . Mountain sheep under similar circumstances show a lordly disregard for the human intruder , leaving his presence ...
... ranch , so tame that they would stand looking at the hunter within fifty yards for sev eral minutes before taking flight . Mountain sheep under similar circumstances show a lordly disregard for the human intruder , leaving his presence ...
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