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The Wonderful Story of Washington

Chapter 4 GETTING USED TO ROUGHING IT

Word Count: 550    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

g it in the forests and along the streams of the Shenandoah. He had begun to adapt himself to the primitive condi

good deal all day, I have lain down before the fire upon a little straw or fodder, or a bearskin, whichever was

rth much more than that correspondingly at that time. These first wages are in sharp contrast to those received by Lin

surveys that they have ever remained the undisputed authority. Meantime, he had an eye to the practical, and, as a result, th

voir to his "quarters" beyond the Blue Ridge, which he had made into a spacious new home named Greenway Court. All the culture of Engl

xious was each for peace, that they settled their home differences and left to the future their rivalry for territory in North America. It then became a race for them,

occupied the eastern coast and given land titles that ran west to the setting sun. Evidently, the mother countries had

he revolutionary grandmothers used to reci

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ance lost all, and a little nation appeared that was the cradle of

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1 Chapter 1 M. Stevens2 Chapter 2 EARLY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE FIRST AMERICAN HERO 17323 Chapter 3 A COMMUNITY PROUD OF ITS FAMILY HONOR4 Chapter 4 GETTING USED TO ROUGHING IT5 Chapter 5 LAND SPECULATION AS THE BEGINNING LEADING TO AMERICAN SELF-GOVERNMENT6 Chapter 6 THE FIRST GREAT PROBLEMS OF THE INDIANS7 Chapter 7 ALARM FOR THE FUTURE8 Chapter 8 ANNOYANCES AND ANTAGONISMS9 Chapter 9 DISHONORS AND DISASTERS10 Chapter 10 THE SEPARATION BEGINNING BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND11 Chapter 11 LESSONS GATHERED FROM DEFEAT12 Chapter 12 FRONTIER FEARS AND PANICS13 Chapter 13 POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND OFFICIAL CONFUSION14 Chapter 14 MILITARY VICTORY AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE15 Chapter 15 LIFE FULFILLED AS A VIRGINIA COUNTRY GENTLEMAN16 Chapter 16 MOUNT VERNON AT FIRST IN A ZONE OF CALM17 Chapter 17 GIVING THE APPEARANCE AND KEEPING THE SUBSTANCE18 Chapter 18 BLAZING THE WAY TO WAR19 Chapter 19 THE DOUBLE-QUICK MARCH TO REVOLUTION20 Chapter 20 SUPPRESSING AMERICANS21 Chapter 21 THE BUSINESS OF GETTING READY22 Chapter 22 UNPATRIOTIC CONFUSION OF OPINIONS AND INTERESTS23 Chapter 23 SOMETIMES TOO LATE TO MEND24 Chapter 24 THE FIRST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF25 Chapter 25 BIG BUSINESS, MONEY-MAKERS AND PATRIOTISM26 Chapter 26 SEEKING RETIREMENT FOR LIFE IN THE PEACE OF A COUNTRY HOME27 Chapter 27 FREEDOM AND THE WRANGLE FOR PERSONAL GAIN28 Chapter 28 SORROW FOR THE DEPARTED SCENES AROUND MOUNT VERNON29 Chapter 29 CROWNED IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME 179930 Chapter 30 FOUNDATIONS31 Chapter 31 FREEDOM OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE32 Chapter 32 THE WASHINGTON IDEAL AS THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN IDEAL33 Chapter 33 NOT BIRTH BUT CHARACTER MAKES AMERICANS34 Chapter 34 THE AMERICAN LESSON LEARNED FROM THE GREATEST LEADERS IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA