Teddy Roosevelt: “The frontiersmen who chopped the first trails across the Alleghanies, who earliest wandered through the lonely western…”

“The frontiersmen who chopped the first trails across the Alleghanies, who earliest wandered through the lonely western lands, and who first built stockaded hamlets on the banks of the Watauga, the Kentucky, and the Cumberland, acted each in consequence of his own restless eagerness for adventure and possible gain.”