Today's installment concludes Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution,our selection from The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt published

The whites soon copied from the Indians their system of individual and private warfare. They probably caused their foes far more damage and loss in

The west would never have been settled save for the fierce courage and the eager desire to brave danger so characteristic of the stalwart

Each family did everything that could be done for itself.Continuing Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution,our selection from The Winning of

The first lesson the backwoodsmen learnt was the necessity of self-help; the next, that such a community could only thrive if all joined in helping

The duties and rights of each member of the family were plain and clear.Continuing Frontiersmen Before the American Revolution,our selection from

They differed from the rest of the world -— even the world of America, and infinitely more the world of Europe -— in dress, in customs, and in mode of

In the hard life of the frontier, they lost much of their religion, and they had but scant opportunity to give their children the schooling in which