The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 - 317 pages |
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... American borderers . The West would 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 ...
... American borderers . The West would 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 ...
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... America the mass of convict servants , redemptioners , and the like , who formed such an excessively undesirable substratum to the otherwise excellent population of the tidewater re- gions in Virginia and the Carolinas . In the ...
... America the mass of convict servants , redemptioners , and the like , who formed such an excessively undesirable substratum to the otherwise excellent population of the tidewater re- gions in Virginia and the Carolinas . In the ...
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... and fertile 1 From Hero Tales from American History . Copyright , 1895. The Century Company , publishers . Other narratives in this collection were written by Henry Cabot Lodge . country of Kentucky , for which , in after years.
... and fertile 1 From Hero Tales from American History . Copyright , 1895. The Century Company , publishers . Other narratives in this collection were written by Henry Cabot Lodge . country of Kentucky , for which , in after years.
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... first time the continent had been crossed . The Spaniards had crossed and recrossed it , for two centuries , farther south . In British America Mackenzie had already pen- etrated to the Pacific , while Hearne had made a THE BACKGROUND 27.
... first time the continent had been crossed . The Spaniards had crossed and recrossed it , for two centuries , farther south . In British America Mackenzie had already pen- etrated to the Pacific , while Hearne had made a THE BACKGROUND 27.
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... commander of the fort , and Bowie , the inventor of the famous bowie - knife . They were a 1 From Hero Tales from American History . Copyright , 1895. The Century Company , publishers . wild and ill - disciplined band , little used to.
... commander of the fort , and Bowie , the inventor of the famous bowie - knife . They were a 1 From Hero Tales from American History . Copyright , 1895. The Century Company , publishers . wild and ill - disciplined band , little used to.
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