 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?  Popular History of Utah - Page 7by Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1916 - 588 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Montana - 1908 - 460 pages
...region had done them conscious and purposed wrong. Mr. Webster voiced the stateman's view when he said : "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this...cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever put those great deserts or endless mountain ranges impenetrable and coverd to their base with eternal... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - United States - 1885 - 1136 pages
...generally, closed with a few remarks concerning the country at large. " What do we want ?" he exclaimed, " with this vast, worthless area ? This region of savages...these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal bope to do with the western irwusand miles,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 376 pages
...against a proposition to establish a mail route through a portion of the western country, as follows : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area —...these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable, and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 82 pages
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth: ^"What do we want with this vpst, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1889 - 84 pages
...Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth : "What do we want with this v?st, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts,...these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
 | North American review - 1889 - 784 pages
...generally denouncing the measure, Webster exclaimed : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area f this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts...these great deserts or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable, and covered to their very base with eternal snow T What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 396 pages
...against a proposition to establish a mail route through a portion of the western country, as follows : " What do we want with this vast, worthless area —...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... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - California - 1891 - 744 pages
...to establish a mail route from Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia, breaks forth : "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This...these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - Latter Day Saint churches - 1892 - 1094 pages
...from Independence, Missouri, to the mouth of the Columbia River. Says the great orator and statesman : "What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This...these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable, and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
 | C. Dean (of Chicago.) - Chicago (Ill.) - 1892 - 588 pages
...all their earnestness, zeal and activity they have uniformly observed every propriety of discussion. of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust,...these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow ? What can we ever hope to do with the... | |
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