The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The winning of the WestP. F. Collier, 1896 - 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 4
... American backwoodsmen , can not be said ; but certainly he left his cabin , swam the river , and plunging into the for- est , straightway fled to his kinsfolk on the banks of the Wabash . Spencer was soon left by his com- panions ...
... American backwoodsmen , can not be said ; but certainly he left his cabin , swam the river , and plunging into the for- est , straightway fled to his kinsfolk on the banks of the Wabash . Spencer was soon left by his com- panions ...
Page 48
... Americans , and especially against the Cumberland people . Yet there was no open break . The Spanish governor was felt to be powerful for both good and evil , and at least a possible friend of the settlers . To many of their leaders he ...
... Americans , and especially against the Cumberland people . Yet there was no open break . The Spanish governor was felt to be powerful for both good and evil , and at least a possible friend of the settlers . To many of their leaders he ...
Page 51
... American advance than would have been offered by an equal number of the best European troops . Their vic- tories over Braddock , Grant , and St. Clair , gained in each case with a smaller force , conclusively proved their superiority ...
... American advance than would have been offered by an equal number of the best European troops . Their vic- tories over Braddock , Grant , and St. Clair , gained in each case with a smaller force , conclusively proved their superiority ...
Page 52
... America as the British discipline is in Flanders ; and British discipline in the woods is the way to have men ... Americans outnumbered of the whites . Gross exaggeration of the Indian numbers and losses prevails even to this day . Mr ...
... America as the British discipline is in Flanders ; and British discipline in the woods is the way to have men ... Americans outnumbered of the whites . Gross exaggeration of the Indian numbers and losses prevails even to this day . Mr ...
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... Americans a struggle for independence in the East , and in the West a war of conquest , or rather a war to establish , on behalf of all our people , the right of entry into the fertile and vacant regions beyond the Alleghanies . The ...
... Americans a struggle for independence in the East , and in the West a war of conquest , or rather a war to establish , on behalf of all our people , the right of entry into the fertile and vacant regions beyond the Alleghanies . The ...
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