【英文原著类】THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST(征服老西南).pdf

THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST
THE CONQUEST OF
THE OLD SOUTHWEST
BY ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, ., .
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THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST
The country might invite a prince from his palace, merely for the
pleasure of contemplating its beauty and excellence; but only add the
rapturous idea of property, and what allurements can the world offer for
the loss of so glorious a prospect?--Richard Henderson.
The established Authority of any government in America, and the
policy of Government at home, are both insufficient to restrain the
Americans . . . . They acquire no attachment to Place: But wandering
about Seems engrafted in their Nature; and it is a weakness incident to it,
that they Should for ever imagine the Lands further off, are Still better
than those upon which they are already settled.--Lord Dunmore, to the
Earl of Dartmouth.
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THE CONQUEST OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST
INTRODUCTION
The romantic and thrilling story of the southward and westward
migration of essive waves of transplanted European peoples
throughout the entire course of the eighteenth century is the history of the
growth and evolution of American democracy. Upon the American
continent was wrought out, through almost superhuman daring, incredible
hardship, and surpassing endurance, the formation of a new society. The
European rudely confronted with the pitiless conditions of the wilderness
soon discovered that his maintenance, indeed his existence, was
conditioned upon his individual efficiency and his resourcefulness in
adapting himself to his environment. The very history of the human race,
from the age of primitive man to the modern era of enlightened
civilization, is traversed in the Old Southwest throughout the course of
half a century.
A series of dissolving views thrown upon the screen, picturing the
essive episodes in the history of a single family as it wended its way
southward along the eastern valleys, resolutely repulsed the sudden attack
of the I