Teddy Roosevelt: “Nevertheless the shadow of desperate war hung over the West.”

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Nevertheless the shadow of desperate war hung over the West.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt acknowledges the persistent threat of war that loomed over the Western territories during their expansion.

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