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Teddy Roosevelt: “The settlers had fairly swarmed into the Kentucky country, and the population was so dense that the true frontiersmen…”

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The settlers had fairly swarmed into the Kentucky country, and the population was so dense that the true frontiersmen, the real pioneers, were already wandering off to Illinois and elsewhere every man of them desiring to live on his own land, by his own labor, and scorning to work for wages.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt discusses the migration of true frontiersmen seeking independence and land ownership.

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