Teddy Roosevelt: “When these continents were settled they contained the largest tracts…”

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When these continents were settled they contained the largest tracts of fertile, temperate, thinly peopled country on the face of the globe.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt describes the fertile and sparsely populated lands that were available during the settlement of America and Australia.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “When these continents were settled they contained the largest tracts of fertile, temperate, thinly peopled country on…”