The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Band 7Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1921 Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, |
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Seite 298 - ... a new field of opportunity, a gate of escape from the bondage of the past; and freshness, and confidence, and scorn of older society, impatience of its restraints and its ideas, and indifference to its lessons, have accompanied the frontier.
Seite 338 - ... today we passed on the Stard. side the remains of a vast many mangled carcases of Buffalow which had been driven over a precipice of 120 feet by the Indians and perished...
Seite 383 - Whenever social conditions tended to ctystallize in the East, whenever capital tended to press upon labor or political restraints to impede the freedom of the mass, there was this gate of escape to the free conditions of the frontier. These free lands promoted individualism, economic equality, freedom to rise, democracy.
Seite 197 - Toombs said, which he did not say, that he would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill...
Seite 45 - Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing ; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continued growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.
Seite 143 - The opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States, the decisions of federal courts and the correspondence between the German Empire on the one hand and the United States on the other, relating to the nature and binding effect of the treaties, were collected from official sources and issued by the Division as a pamphlet in March, 1917.
Seite 202 - He stopped, looked down, traced the pattern of the carpet with the point of his cane, then raised his head and continued: "You take care of the sick and wounded, go into all those dreadful places just as I used to drink brandy — for sake of the exhilaration it brings you.
Seite 11 - But as the seat of empire from time immemorial has been gradually progressive toward the west, there is no doubt but that at some future period mighty kingdoms will emerge from these wildernesses...
Seite 383 - In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics.
Seite 192 - A woman had started a political paper! A woman! Could he believe his eyes? A woman! Instantly he sprang to his feet and clutched his pantaloons, shouted to the assistant editor, when he, too, read and grasped frantically at his cassimeres, called to the reporters and pressmen and typos and devils, who all rushed in, heard the news, seized their nether garments and joined the general chorus, "My breeches! oh, my breeches!