The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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... West- ern land claims . Congress , under pressure of popular opinion , instructed Jay to make no such concession ... West and for making treaties with the Indians . Jefferson , the believer in agrarian democracy , was largely responsible ...
... West- ern land claims . Congress , under pressure of popular opinion , instructed Jay to make no such concession ... West and for making treaties with the Indians . Jefferson , the believer in agrarian democracy , was largely responsible ...
Page 127
... West Virginia - facilitating wagon travel as far as the Ohio River . Lacking roads , the West was fortunate in being laced with a network of long , navigable rivers - such as the Mississippi and its tributaries - which served in their ...
... West Virginia - facilitating wagon travel as far as the Ohio River . Lacking roads , the West was fortunate in being laced with a network of long , navigable rivers - such as the Mississippi and its tributaries - which served in their ...
Page 164
... west and south . But they provided broad and reasonably safe highways on which a man could drift with his family for hundreds of miles — all the way down to New Orleans if necessary when it came time to market his har- vest . Although ...
... west and south . But they provided broad and reasonably safe highways on which a man could drift with his family for hundreds of miles — all the way down to New Orleans if necessary when it came time to market his har- vest . Although ...
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