 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
 | C. Dean (of Chicago.) - 1892 - 588 strani
...all their earnestness, zeal and activity they have uniformly observed every propriety of discussion. of deserts, of shifting sands 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... | |
 | 1893 - 640 strani
...measure, voiced the popular estimation of the western half of the country in the following language: 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 these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Edward H. Anderson - 1893 - 182 strani
...and forbidding portion of the vast western region of which the great statesman, Daniel Webster, 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 hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable,... | |
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - 1895 - 386 strani
...the following words by our greatest orator, will always have their place: "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,... | |
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - 1895 - 386 strani
...the following words by our greatest orator, will always have their place: "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild...shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and pralrje dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or these endless mountain... | |
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - 1895 - 390 strani
...their place: "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild heasts, of deserts, of shifting sands 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,... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - 1895 - 724 strani
...be drawn and the god Terminus should be raised upon its highest pea"k, own down." 9« sta tu e «t of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? ***** What can we ever hope to do with the Western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1897 - 696 strani
...natural and everlasting " western boundary of the United States.973 Webster is represented as saying of Oregon: "What do we want with this vast worthless...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus, and prairie dogs ? " W4 But John Quincy Adams believed thaf the Pacific coast belonged to us by "manifest destiny 'V"... | |
 | Isaac Haight Beardsley - 1898 - 620 strani
...Pacific, spoke thus contemptuously of what now constitutes more than a dozen States and three Territories: '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... | |
 | 1899 - 674 strani
...unrivaled, once said of Oregon that "it was a worthless area, a region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs." It is also said that is later hours he acknowledged that he erred in judgment, and that Oregon, the... | |
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