Senator, let me answer that by saying the fact that Alaska was, until recently, a frontier State, as was all of the West not too many years ago. To suggest that simply because the West was settled by pioneers who made wagon tracks or where they had footpaths where they tried to get to the West, to suggest that all of those routes across Federal lands--let me finish, sir.
Discussing the historical context of settlement in the West during a Senate debate.
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