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Since then, our people, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and are already engaged in establishing the blessings of self-government in valleys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific….

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

Since then, our people, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and are already engaged in establishing the blessings of self-government in valleys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific….

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

Within that period—within the lifetime, I might say, of some of my hearers—our people, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and are already engaged in establishing the blessings of self-government in valleys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific.

James Knox Polk: Inaugural Address 1989

Within that period -- within the lifetime, I might say, of some of my hearers -- our people, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and are already engaged in establishing the blessings of self-government in valleys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific.

United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches United States. Presidents.

Within that period -- within the lifetime, I might say, of some of my hearers -- our people, increasing to many millions, have filled the eastern valley of the Mississippi, adventurously ascended the Missouri to its headsprings, and are already engaged in establishing the blessings of self-government in valleys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific.

US Presidential Inaugural Addresses Various

Then, at about the point where the trail dipped into a basin containing the headsprings of the Anan&ás, we left this type of country and began to march through thick forest, not very high.

VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land 1914

Necessity, near the fork of the Ohio, to the French, “in the whole valley of the Mississippi, to its headsprings in the Alleghanies, no standard floated but that of France.”

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, the boundary lines of which include the headsprings of the tributaries above mentioned and the lands the drainage of which is into the same:

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867

So that even this greatest of these neighboring rivers is but a partial and limited exception to their general character of having almost no headsprings, or supplies from remote sources.

Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands 1861

He worried when the babies set off in a direction that led away from the headsprings to the Rainbow River, he recalled, laughing.

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