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"...if they chose war, he would call from the Thirteen Council Fires - warriors so numerous that they would darken the land, and from that point on the red people would hear no sound but that of the birds that lived on blood".

I wish I could be as cool as George Rogers Clark.

During the two years of petty but disastrous Indian warfare, the harassed and diminishing settlers had been so absorbed in the contest with the outside foe that they had done little towards keeping up their own internal government.

Irrespective of the white frontiersman taking native lands, what I'm noting is the fact that maintenance of the civil fabric requires vigilant just as outward defense does.

TR says an American Revolutionary officer tells his men they are not to wait for the word of his command. They will know how and when to fight by following his example.

The scholarly demeanor of the young TR which comes across in this work is a little surprising given his reputation for energy and, sometimes, impudence.