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Teddy Roosevelt: “Boone, the typical frontiersman, embodied in his own person the spirit of loneliness and restlessness which marked the…”

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Boone, the typical frontiersman, embodied in his own person the spirit of loneliness and restlessness which marked the first venturers into the wilderness.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

This passage reflects on Daniel Boone as a symbol of the restless spirit of early American frontiersmen.

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