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Our frontiers were pushed westward by the warlike skill and adventurous personal prowess of the individual settlers; regular armies by themselves could have done little.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Roosevelt asserts the crucial role of individual settlers in expanding the American frontier compared to regular armies.
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