On the border each man was a law unto himself, and good and bad alike were left in perfect freedom to follow out to the uttermost limits their own desires; for the spirit of individualism so characteristic of American life reached its extreme of development in the back-woods.
Roosevelt reflects on the extreme individualism of frontier life and its implications for law and order.
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