Every settlement had its colonels and captains; but these officers, both in their training and in the authority they exercised, corresponded much more nearly to Indian chiefs than to the regular army men whose titles they bore.
Roosevelt notes the informal leadership structure in frontier settlements, comparing it to that of Native American tribes.
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