 | Montana - 1908 - 460 pages
...purposed wrong. Mr. Webster voiced the stateman's view when he said : "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts,...cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever put those great deserts or endless mountain ranges impenetrable and coverd to their base with eternal... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 1588 pages
..."What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts and shifting sands, and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we put these great deserts, those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to the base with eternal... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Alaska - 1895 - 724 pages
...be drawn and the god Terminus should be raised upon its highest pea"k, own down." 9« sta tu e «t of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? ***** What can we ever hope to do with the Western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound,... | |
 | Oregon - 1899 - 750 pages
...unrivaled, once said of Oregon that "it was a worthless area, a region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs." It is also said that is later hours he acknowledged that he erred in judgment, and that Oregon, the... | |
 | Oregon - 1899 - 674 pages
...unrivaled, once said of Oregon that "it was a worthless area, a region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs." It is also said that is later hours he acknowledged that he erred in judgment, and that Oregon, the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1900 - 400 pages
...regard to a proposed mail service between Missouri and the Pacific, "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts...prairie dogs ? To what use could we ever hope to put the great deserts, of these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their bases with eternal... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1900 - 392 pages
...regard to a proposed mail service between Missouri and the Pacific, "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts...prairie dogs ? To what use could we ever hope to put the great deserts, of these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their bases with eternal... | |
 | Joseph Hankinson Reading - Africa, West - 1901 - 362 pages
...Webster opposed the measure as a useless expense and spoke as follows : " What do we want with this vast worthless area — this region of savages and wild...dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these deserts, or these endless mountain chains, impenetrable and covered to their bases with eternal snow7?... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 772 pages
...years ago that Daniel Webster declared in Congress : " What do we want of this vast worthless area of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust ; of cactus and prairie dogs ; a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless and uninviting, without a harbor on it ?" It was fifty-five... | |
 | Myron Eells - Oregon - 1902 - 132 pages
...Columbia Mr. Webster, after denouncing the measure generally said : "What do you want of that vast and worthless area? this region of savages and wild beasts,...prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put those great deserts, and those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base... | |
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What do we want with the vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs — to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts and these endless mountain... 
