The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... never been excelled . When a group of families moved out into the wilder- ness they built themselves a station or stockade fort ; a square palisade of upright logs , loop - holed , with strong blockhouses as bastions at the corners ...
... never been excelled . When a group of families moved out into the wilder- ness they built themselves a station or stockade fort ; a square palisade of upright logs , loop - holed , with strong blockhouses as bastions at the corners ...
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... never have been settled save for the fierce courage and the eager desire to brave danger so characteristic of the stal- wart backwoodsmen . These armed hunters , woodchoppers , and farmers were their own soldiers . They built and manned ...
... never have been settled save for the fierce courage and the eager desire to brave danger so characteristic of the stal- wart backwoodsmen . These armed hunters , woodchoppers , and farmers were their own soldiers . They built and manned ...
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... 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 re- member a year in which some one of his neighbors did not fall a ...
... 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 re- member a year in which some one of his neighbors did not fall a ...
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... never- theless the moral sentiment of a backwoods community was too robust to tolerate habitual remissness in mili- tary affairs , and the coward and laggard were treated with utter scorn , and were generally in the end either laughed ...
... never- theless the moral sentiment of a backwoods community was too robust to tolerate habitual remissness in mili- tary affairs , and the coward and laggard were treated with utter scorn , and were generally in the end either laughed ...
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... never lay in wait at a game - lick , save with ears strained to hear the approach of some crawling red foe . He never crept up to a turkey he heard calling , without exercising the utmost care to see that it was not an Indian ; for one ...
... never lay in wait at a game - lick , save with ears strained to hear the approach of some crawling red foe . He never crept up to a turkey he heard calling , without exercising the utmost care to see that it was not an Indian ; for one ...
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