 | Benjamin Perley Poore - History - 1886 - 580 pages
...a few remarks concerning the country at large. " What do we want ?" he exclaimed, " with this vast, worthless area ? This region of savages and wild beasts,...rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for this country ?" Franklin Pierce, who had served two terms in the House of Representatives,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 376 pages
...mail route through a portion of the western country, as follows : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area — this region of savages and wild...rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country?" In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one passes... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 82 pages
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth: ^"What do we want with this vpst, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3.000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1889 - 84 pages
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth : "What do we want with this v?st, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3.000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 396 pages
...worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirl winds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ? To what use...rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for this country ? " In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 390 pages
...put these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, impeneEDEN OF THE NORTH PACIFIC. 5 trable, and covered to their very base with eternal snow?...rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country?" In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one passes... | |
 | North American review - 1889 - 784 pages
...or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable, and covered to their very base with eternal snow T What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 8,000 miles, rbckbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it I What use have we for this country... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - California - 1891 - 744 pages
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth : "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - Latter Day Saint churches - 1892 - 1094 pages
...mouth of the Columbia River. Says the great orator and statesman : "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? Mr. President, I will never... | |
 | C. Dean (of Chicago.) - Chicago (Ill.) - 1892 - 588 pages
...all their earnestness, zeal and activity they have uniformly observed every propriety of discussion. of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust,...ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 2,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for that country?"... | |
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What do we want with this 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, or those endless mountain... 
