 What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?  California the Golden - Stran 322avtor: Rockwell D. Hunt - 1911 - 362 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1908 - 460 strani
...region had done them conscious and purposed wrong. Mr. Webster voiced the stateman's view when he said : "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever put those great deserts or endless mountain ranges impenetrable and coverd... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1885 - 1136 strani
...generally, closed with a few remarks concerning the country at large. " What do we want ?" he exclaimed, " with this vast, worthless area ? This region of savages...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1889 - 376 strani
...against a proposition to establish a mail route through a portion of the western country, as follows : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area —...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 82 strani
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth: ^"What do we want with this vpst, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1889 - 84 strani
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth : "What do we want with this v?st, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1889 - 396 strani
...against a proposition to establish a mail route through a portion of the western country, as follows : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area —...and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirl winds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ? To what use could we ever hope to put these great... | |
 | 1889 - 784 strani
...generally denouncing the measure, Webster exclaimed : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area f this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1891 - 744 strani
...to establish a mail route from Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth : "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1892 - 1094 strani
...from Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia River. Says the great orator and statesman : "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to' put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable,... | |
 | 1899 - 1588 strani
...mouth of Columbia River, three thousand miles long. In closing a speech against the measure he said: "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts and shifting sands, and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we put these... | |
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