 What do we want with that vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of desert, of shifting sands and whirlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific...  The Catholic Historical Review - Page 2611924Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1910 - 686 pages
...as a "a barren waste—a desert of plain and mountain; a region of savages and wild beasts; deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs. I have never heard of anything and I cannot conceive anything more ridiculous in itself, more absurd... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - History - 1886 - 560 pages
...he exclaimed, u 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 ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1885 - 1136 pages
...he exclaimed, " 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 ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - History - 1886 - 562 pages
...he exclaimed, " 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 ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - History - 1886 - 580 pages
...he exclaimed, " 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 ranges, impenetrable... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 390 pages
...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 ranges, impeneEDENOF... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 390 pages
...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 ranges, impenetrable,and... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 488 pages
...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 ranges, impeneEDENOF... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - California - 1891 - 700 pages
..."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 jput these great deserts, or those endless mountain :ranges, impenetrable... | |
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