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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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Texas bonds and land scrip appeared miraculously in thousands of pockets . Charles and Mary Beard say , in their Rise of American Civilization : In New York City , for example , three land companies , organized to buy claims of doubtful ...
Texas bonds and land scrip appeared miraculously in thousands of pockets . Charles and Mary Beard say , in their Rise of American Civilization : In New York City , for example , three land companies , organized to buy claims of doubtful ...
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Colonel Dent let his son - in - law have eighty acres of land near St. Louis , and Grant's career as a Missouri farmer began . It was a rather discouraging start . He called his farm “ Hardscrabble , ” in anticipation of the hard times ...
Colonel Dent let his son - in - law have eighty acres of land near St. Louis , and Grant's career as a Missouri farmer began . It was a rather discouraging start . He called his farm “ Hardscrabble , ” in anticipation of the hard times ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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