Thus the backwoodsmen lived on the clearings they had hewed out of the everlasting forest; a grim, stern people, strong and simple, powerful for good and evil, swayed by gusts of stormy passion, the love of freedom rooted in their very hearts' core.
Roosevelt reflects on the character and resilience of the backwoodsmen who settled in the wilderness.
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