During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking feature in the world's history, but also the event of all others most far-reaching in its effects and its importance.
-- Theodore Roosevelt , The Winning of the West, Vol.
I The Winning of the West Vol.
I--From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769 - 1776 (1889) is the first part of Theodore Roos.