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 12
... frontiersmen have been re- corded ; and in consequence historians are apt to regard these few as being exceptional , instead of typical . Donelson was merely one of a hundred leaders of flotillas that went down the Western rivers at ...
... frontiersmen have been re- corded ; and in consequence historians are apt to regard these few as being exceptional , instead of typical . Donelson was merely one of a hundred leaders of flotillas that went down the Western rivers at ...
Page 16
... frontiersmen , and lived for fifty years afterward , long enough to see all the wilderness filled with flourishing and popu- lous States . One of the clumsy craft , however , did not share the good fortune that befell the rest , in ...
... frontiersmen , and lived for fifty years afterward , long enough to see all the wilderness filled with flourishing and popu- lous States . One of the clumsy craft , however , did not share the good fortune that befell the rest , in ...
Page 49
... frontiersmen west of the mountains , and beyond the limits of continuous set- tlement within the old Thirteen Colonies , 1 were the two or three hundred citizens of the little Watauga commonwealth . When peace was declared with Great ...
... frontiersmen west of the mountains , and beyond the limits of continuous set- tlement within the old Thirteen Colonies , 1 were the two or three hundred citizens of the little Watauga commonwealth . When peace was declared with Great ...
Page 50
... frontiersmen a keen desire to possess it . The build- ing of the Watauga commonwealth by Robertson and Sevier gave a base of operations , and furnished a model for similar communities to follow . Lord Dunmore's war made the actual ...
... frontiersmen a keen desire to possess it . The build- ing of the Watauga commonwealth by Robertson and Sevier gave a base of operations , and furnished a model for similar communities to follow . Lord Dunmore's war made the actual ...
Page 88
... frontiersmen swarmed into the region . so recently won . These men merely wanted so much land as they could till . Others , however , looked at it from a very different standpoint . The land was the real treas- ury - chest of the ...
... frontiersmen swarmed into the region . so recently won . These men merely wanted so much land as they could till . Others , however , looked at it from a very different standpoint . The land was the real treas- ury - chest of the ...
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