The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... ground which they claimed had to be cleared by the axe and held with the rifle . Not only was the chopping down of the forests the first preliminary to cultivation , but it was also the surest means of subduing the Indians , to whom the ...
... ground which they claimed had to be cleared by the axe and held with the rifle . Not only was the chopping down of the forests the first preliminary to cultivation , but it was also the surest means of subduing the Indians , to whom the ...
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... grounds , possibly some miles from the cabin , were cleared for meadows , the fodder being stacked , and hauled home in winter . The first lesson the backwoodsmen learnt was the necessity of self - help ; the next , that such a ...
... grounds , possibly some miles from the cabin , were cleared for meadows , the fodder being stacked , and hauled home in winter . The first lesson the backwoodsmen learnt was the necessity of self - help ; the next , that such a ...
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... grounds as if a whirlwind had passed . The black and gray squirrels swarmed , devas- tating the cornfields , and at times gathering in immense companies and migrating across mountain and river . The hunters ' ordinary game was the deer ...
... grounds as if a whirlwind had passed . The black and gray squirrels swarmed , devas- tating the cornfields , and at times gathering in immense companies and migrating across mountain and river . The hunters ' ordinary game was the deer ...
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... ground like any other frontiersman . The Alleghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers dared not go ; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest , uninhabited save by bands of warlike Indians ...
... ground like any other frontiersman . The Alleghany Mountains still marked a boundary beyond which the settlers dared not go ; for west of them lay immense reaches of frowning forest , uninhabited save by bands of warlike Indians ...
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... ground . " But when Boone first saw it , it was a fair and smiling land of groves and glades and running waters , where the open forest grew tall and beautiful , and where innumerable herds of game grazed , roaming ceaselessly to and ...
... ground . " But when Boone first saw it , it was a fair and smiling land of groves and glades and running waters , where the open forest grew tall and beautiful , and where innumerable herds of game grazed , roaming ceaselessly to and ...
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