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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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 race .
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 race .
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CEAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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