The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestCollier, 1896 |
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... frontiersmen was small . The men of the Cum- berland in writing to the Creeks spoke of the Frank- lin people as if they belonged to an entirely distinct nation , and as if a war with or by one community concerned in no way the other ; 1 ...
... frontiersmen was small . The men of the Cum- berland in writing to the Creeks spoke of the Frank- lin people as if they belonged to an entirely distinct nation , and as if a war with or by one community concerned in no way the other ; 1 ...
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... frontiersmen was in one way of great service to the nation , for it kept back the frontier and forced the settlements to re- main more or less compact and in touch with the country behind them . If the red men had been as weak as , for ...
... frontiersmen was in one way of great service to the nation , for it kept back the frontier and forced the settlements to re- main more or less compact and in touch with the country behind them . If the red men had been as weak as , for ...
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... frontiersmen from the territory either to the north or to the south of the boundaries of the United States . Congress had tried hard to bring about peace with the Southern Indians , both by sending commission- ers to them and by trying ...
... frontiersmen from the territory either to the north or to the south of the boundaries of the United States . Congress had tried hard to bring about peace with the Southern Indians , both by sending commission- ers to them and by trying ...
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... frontiersmen grum- ble , the Creeks scornfully repudiated the promises made on their behalf by their authorized represen- tatives . Their motive in going to war , and keep- ing up the war , was not so much anger at the en- croachments ...
... frontiersmen grum- ble , the Creeks scornfully repudiated the promises made on their behalf by their authorized represen- tatives . Their motive in going to war , and keep- ing up the war , was not so much anger at the en- croachments ...
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... frontiersmen to observe the Indian boundary lines , and not to intrude on the territory in dispute ; and they were quite un- able to foresee the rapidity of the nation's westward growth . Like the people of the Eastern seaboard , the ...
... frontiersmen to observe the Indian boundary lines , and not to intrude on the territory in dispute ; and they were quite un- able to foresee the rapidity of the nation's westward growth . Like the people of the Eastern seaboard , the ...
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