 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 396 pages
...establish a mail route through a portion of the western country, as follows : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirl winds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ? To what use could we ever hope to put these great... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 1588 pages
...three thousand miles long. In closing a speech against the measure he said: "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts and shifting sands, and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we put these... | |
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - Northwest, Pacific - 1895 - 386 pages
...intelligence as to our own country, the following words by our greatest orator, will always have their place: "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this...shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and pralrje dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or these endless mountain... | |
 | Oliver Woodson Nixon - Northwest, Pacific - 1895 - 390 pages
...intelligence as to our own country, the following words by our greatest orator, will always have their place: "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild heasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Alaska - 1895 - 724 pages
...be drawn and the god Terminus should be raised upon its highest pea"k, own down." 9« sta tu e «t of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? ***** What can we ever hope to do with the Western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1897 - 696 pages
...boundary of the United States.973 Webster is represented as saying of Oregon: "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus, and prairie dogs ? " W4 But John Quincy Adams believed thaf the Pacific coast belonged to us by "manifest destiny 'V"... | |
 | Isaac Haight Beardsley - Clergy - 1898 - 620 pages
...of what now constitutes more than a dozen States and three Territories: 'What do we want with this vast worthless area — this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie-dogs? To what use could we ever hope to... | |
 | Oregon - 1899 - 750 pages
...unrivaled, once said of Oregon that "it was a worthless area, a region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs." It is also said that is later hours he acknowledged that he erred in judgment, and that Oregon, the... | |
 | Oregon - 1899 - 674 pages
...unrivaled, once said of Oregon that "it was a worthless area, a region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs." It is also said that is later hours he acknowledged that he erred in judgment, and that Oregon, the... | |
 | Allen Clapp Thomas - United States - 1900 - 370 pages
...United States to be of little value. This opinion was held for many years ; even Daniel Webster said : " What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this...and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs ? What can we hope to do with the western coast . . . rockbound, cheerless, and uninviting, and not... | |
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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? 
