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Who were the Indians, anyway, except a kind of wild animal very much in the frontiersman's way and to be exterminated like other savage beasts?
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Who were the Indians, anyway, except a kind of wild animal very much in the frontiersman's way and to be exterminated…”
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Beveridge expresses a harsh view of how frontiersmen perceived Native Americans during westward expansion.
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