 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
 | University of Washington - 1925 - 302 strani
...Columbia River: "What do we want with that vast worthless area, that region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands, and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put those great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Jeremiah Mason - 1917 - 560 strani
...before the Senate to establish a mail-route from Independence, Mo., to the mouth of the Columbia 'River: "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This...shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie-dogs? To what use could we hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain-ranges,... | |
 | 1913 - 64 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1954 - 720 strani
...than it is. What do we want with this vast worthless area — this area of savages and wild beasts, 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1955 - 756 strani
...Webster once said : What do we want with this worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? As one writer has commented on Mr. Webster's statement : Few men so illustrious have ever proved so... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations - 1956 - 544 strani
...Boston than it is. "What do we want with this worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? "To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts and these endless mountain ranges?" Few... | |
 | 1959 - 800 strani
...perhaps, but just as deadly. The philosophy once expressed by Daniel Webster persisted for a longtime: "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever 11 put... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on National Water Resources - 1960 - 1280 strani
...depend to a great extent on the availability of adequate water resources. Daniel Webster once said : What do we want with this vast worthless area * * » this region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to... | |
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