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It was a land of calloused hands , of lean and muscular men , of canvas - covered wagons with dry mud flaking from their wheels , of shotguns and hunting dogs , of silent women bending over the fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing ...
It was a land of calloused hands , of lean and muscular men , of canvas - covered wagons with dry mud flaking from their wheels , of shotguns and hunting dogs , of silent women bending over the fires of cooking , with the smoke blowing ...
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To this pleading letter the War Department replied that nothing could be done , as the resignation had already been accepted , and the episode was closed : Colonel Dent let his son - in - law have eighty acres of land near St. Louis ...
To this pleading letter the War Department replied that nothing could be done , as the resignation had already been accepted , and the episode was closed : Colonel Dent let his son - in - law have eighty acres of land near St. Louis ...
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How can you expect him to be a selfrespecting citizen , a man of honor and probity , if he hasn't a foot of land ? God's image in ebony . Precisely . It's our duty ; we owe something to this poor , down - trodden The state will buy the ...
How can you expect him to be a selfrespecting citizen , a man of honor and probity , if he hasn't a foot of land ? God's image in ebony . Precisely . It's our duty ; we owe something to this poor , down - trodden The state will buy the ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant A Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Garden Publishing Company, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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