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... typical American frontiersman was a small individualist agricultural proprietor or farm labourer , not a cowboy or ranch - hand . In Canada and New Zealand , too , the farmer was the typical frontiers- man . In South Africa the pastoral ...
... typical American frontiersman was a small individualist agricultural proprietor or farm labourer , not a cowboy or ranch - hand . In Canada and New Zealand , too , the farmer was the typical frontiers- man . In South Africa the pastoral ...
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... Typical of many , he says , was the following : ' Many a Mac in your town , if he only knew what the situation of a convict was , would not be long in following my example ! Thank God for the same ! I never was better off in my life ...
... Typical of many , he says , was the following : ' Many a Mac in your town , if he only knew what the situation of a convict was , would not be long in following my example ! Thank God for the same ! I never was better off in my life ...
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... typical of the convict and currency elements of the population . This is not to deny that some newly arrived immi- grants made good bushmen . There must have been many cases of ' natural inborn fitness ' for outback life , such as that ...
... typical of the convict and currency elements of the population . This is not to deny that some newly arrived immi- grants made good bushmen . There must have been many cases of ' natural inborn fitness ' for outback life , such as that ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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