"I can only thank my stars that I had my life to spend in this country. I say this not out of the natives;s self confidence, which often takes the country for granted and looks abroad for greener pastures, but out of the knowledge that but for a fateful choice or lucky accident I might well have had to spend my life under the threatening sky and in the fetid air of a country unused to the traditions of political liberty and the individuals worth, those traditions which, granted a certain rawness and a certain violence, found-and still find-such strong expression in the American West"
Neider, The Great West pg 16
Rider I
Neider, The Great West pg 16
Rider I
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