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... backwoodsmen were Americans by birth and parentage , and of mixed race ;
but the dominant strain in their blood was that of the Presbyterian Irish - the
Scotch - Irish as they were often called . These Irish representatives of the
Covenanters ...
... backwoodsmen were Americans by birth and parentage , and of mixed race ;
but the dominant strain in their blood was that of the Presbyterian Irish - the
Scotch - Irish as they were often called . These Irish representatives of the
Covenanters ...
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At other times they all separated out to their own farms , universally called
clearings , as they were always made by first cutting off the timber . The stumps
were left to dot the fields of grain and Indian corn . The corn in especial was the
stand ...
At other times they all separated out to their own farms , universally called
clearings , as they were always made by first cutting off the timber . The stumps
were left to dot the fields of grain and Indian corn . The corn in especial was the
stand ...
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Where the schoolhouses existed they were only dark , mean log - huts , and if in
the southern colonies , were generally placed in the so - called “ old fields , ” or
abandoned farms grown up with pines . The schoolmaster boarded about with
the ...
Where the schoolhouses existed they were only dark , mean log - huts , and if in
the southern colonies , were generally placed in the so - called “ old fields , ” or
abandoned farms grown up with pines . The schoolmaster boarded about with
the ...
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The war was never - ending , for even the times of so - called peace were broken
by forays and murders ; a man might grow from babyhood to middle age on the
border , and yet never remember a year in which some one of his neighbors did ...
The war was never - ending , for even the times of so - called peace were broken
by forays and murders ; a man might grow from babyhood to middle age on the
border , and yet never remember a year in which some one of his neighbors did ...
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Selections from His Writings and Speeches Theodore Roosevelt John Ashby
Lester. country of Kentucky , for which , in after years , the red men and the white
strove with such obstinate fury that it grew to be called “ the dark and bloody
ground ...
Selections from His Writings and Speeches Theodore Roosevelt John Ashby
Lester. country of Kentucky , for which , in after years , the red men and the white
strove with such obstinate fury that it grew to be called “ the dark and bloody
ground ...
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