Therefore the frontiersmen found nothing serious to bar their farther march westward; the diminutive Spanish garrisons in the little creole towns near the Missouri were far less capable of effective resistance than were most of the Indian tribes whom the Americans were brushing out of their path.
Roosevelt points out that the lack of serious resistance from Spanish forces allowed American frontiersmen to continue their westward expansion.
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