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He loved the wilderness ; he loved the great forests and the great prairie - like
glades , and the life in the little lonely cabin , where from the door he could see
the deer come out into the clearing at nightfall . The neighborhood of his own
kind ...
He loved the wilderness ; he loved the great forests and the great prairie - like
glades , and the life in the little lonely cabin , where from the door he could see
the deer come out into the clearing at nightfall . The neighborhood of his own
kind ...
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From there onwards the game was found in vast herds and the party began to
come upon those characteristic animals of the Great Plains which were as yet
unknown to white men of our race . The buffalo and the elk had once ranged
eastward ...
From there onwards the game was found in vast herds and the party began to
come upon those characteristic animals of the Great Plains which were as yet
unknown to white men of our race . The buffalo and the elk had once ranged
eastward ...
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It was the explorations of Lewis and Clark , and not those of Mackenzie on the
north or of the Spaniards in the south , which were to bear fruit , because they
pointed the way to the tens of thousands of settlers who were to come after them ,
and ...
It was the explorations of Lewis and Clark , and not those of Mackenzie on the
north or of the Spaniards in the south , which were to bear fruit , because they
pointed the way to the tens of thousands of settlers who were to come after them ,
and ...
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Fall had nearly come when they reached the headwaters of the Missouri . The
end of the holiday - time was at hand , for they had before them the labor of
crossing the great mountains so as to strike the headwaters of the Columbia .
Fall had nearly come when they reached the headwaters of the Missouri . The
end of the holiday - time was at hand , for they had before them the labor of
crossing the great mountains so as to strike the headwaters of the Columbia .
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... only the tribes on the outer edges had come in contact with the whites ,
whether with occasional French and English traders who brought them goods , or
with the mixed bloods of the northern Spanish settloments , upon which they
raided .
... only the tribes on the outer edges had come in contact with the whites ,
whether with occasional French and English traders who brought them goods , or
with the mixed bloods of the northern Spanish settloments , upon which they
raided .
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| Title | The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches Volume 3 of Publications of the Roosevelt Memorial Association Volume 272 of Riverside literature series Issue 3 of Roosevelt memorial association |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Editor | John Ashby Lester |
| Compiled by | Hermann Hagedorn |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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