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Pioneers lay the roads for those who follow to walk on.
One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks ...
I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tea ...
Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, "Str ...
"Tall tales" were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing ...
Texas is a heaven for men and dogs but hell for women and oxen.
Called on one occasion to a homestead cabin whose occupant had been found frozen to death, Coroner Harvey opened the door, glanced ...
To the cry of "follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land," Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stamp ...
"Well, well," he said to himself, "you are not in Belgium; let us begin our apprenticeship in earnest, and so long as we are in th ...
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