The Winning Of The West V4 - Theodore Roosevelt - Bog

The Winning of the West is a four-volume historical account of the American frontier written by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. The fourth volume in the series provides a detailed account of the final stages of the westward expansion of the United States, covering the period between 1784 and 1807. The book chronicles the conflicts between Native Americans and settlers, the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the War of 1812. Roosevelt's writing style is engaging and vivid, drawing on his own experiences as a rancher and cowboy in the American West. The book is an important historical document, providing insight into the mindset and attitudes of Americans during the period of westward expansion. It is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, particularly the history of the American West.The Winning of the West, Volume Four. Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807. Theodore Roosevelt was more than just the 26th president of the United States. He was a writer, historian, explorer, big-game hunter, soldier, conservationist, ranchman and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Drawing greatly from materials found in the archives of the American Government, Roosevelt has written a multivolume history of the border people. He writes in the Preface: For a number of years I spent most of my time on the frontier, and lived and worked like any other frontiersman. The wild country in which we dwelt and across which we wandered was in the far West; and there were of course many features in which the life of a cattleman on the Great Plains and among the Rockies differed from that led by a backwoodsman in the Alleghany forest a century before. Yet the points of resemblance were far more numerous and striking. We guarded our herds of branded cattle and shaggy horses, hunted bear, bison, elk, and deer, established civil government, and put down evil-doers, white and red, on the banks of the Little Missouri and among the wooded, precipitous foothills of the Bighorn, exactly as did the pioneers who a hundred years previously build their log cabins beside the Kentucky or in the valleys of the Great Smokies. The men who have shared in the fast vanishing frontier life of the present feel a peculiar sympathy with the already long-vanished frontier life of the past.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.