 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 324avtor: Rockwell D. Hunt - 1911 - 362 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Wendell Paddock, Orville Blaine Whipple - 1910 - 432 strani
...discussion, Daniel Webster, on the floor of the Senate, opposed it and closed his speech as follows : ' What do we want with this vast worthless area? this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to... | |
 | John Brent - 1910 - 326 strani
...want of that vast and worthless area"—it is Daniel Webster addressing the Senate in 1843—"that region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirling wind, of dust, of cactus and prairie-dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put those great... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1911 - 514 strani
...superficial notions about the West. In a speech delivered in 1846 he said, with more rhetoric than wisdom: "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... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - 1911 - 546 strani
...American Desert,' because it was thought to be a barren waste, like the Desert of Sahara. Webster asked, " What do we want with this vast worthless area, this...whirlwinds of dust, of cactus, and prairie dogs?" But settlers, with their rifles, axes, and plows, went to the Oregon Country, made homes there, and... | |
 | Leavitt Homan Hallock - 1911 - 148 strani
...concerning this great Northwest territory. He exclaimed with evident emotion: "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, — this region of savages and...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ! To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Harrington Emerson - 1911 - 448 strani
...of the Rocky Mountains, and because he had near common sense, he was will* "What do we want of the vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild...deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these deserts, or these endless mountain... | |
 | Julius Charles Birge - 1912 - 498 strani
...who is alleged to have asked in 1843 concerning this western territory, " What do we want with the vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?" In spite of the oppressive heat of the day and the long tramp still before us, Ben, who was tough and... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1913 - 312 strani
...captured until nearly two years later. Daniel Webster had said in the Senate: " What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable,... | |
 | 1913 - 350 strani
...for those who failed to save a copy on its first publication. — Editor.] "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 526 strani
...territory which we acquired from New Mexico : "What do we want of that vast and worthless area, that region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirling wind, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogsf To what use could we ever hope to put those great... | |
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