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Chapter 4 GETTING USED TO ROUGHING IT

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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

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Contents

Chapter 1 M. Stevens Chapter 2 EARLY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE FIRST AMERICAN HERO 1732 Chapter 3 A COMMUNITY PROUD OF ITS FAMILY HONOR Chapter 4 GETTING USED TO ROUGHING IT Chapter 5 LAND SPECULATION AS THE BEGINNING LEADING TO AMERICAN SELF-GOVERNMENT Chapter 6 THE FIRST GREAT PROBLEMS OF THE INDIANS Chapter 7 ALARM FOR THE FUTURE Chapter 8 ANNOYANCES AND ANTAGONISMS Chapter 9 DISHONORS AND DISASTERS Chapter 10 THE SEPARATION BEGINNING BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND Chapter 11 LESSONS GATHERED FROM DEFEAT
Chapter 12 FRONTIER FEARS AND PANICS
Chapter 13 POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND OFFICIAL CONFUSION
Chapter 14 MILITARY VICTORY AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE
Chapter 15 LIFE FULFILLED AS A VIRGINIA COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
Chapter 16 MOUNT VERNON AT FIRST IN A ZONE OF CALM
Chapter 17 GIVING THE APPEARANCE AND KEEPING THE SUBSTANCE
Chapter 18 BLAZING THE WAY TO WAR
Chapter 19 THE DOUBLE-QUICK MARCH TO REVOLUTION
Chapter 20 SUPPRESSING AMERICANS
Chapter 21 THE BUSINESS OF GETTING READY
Chapter 22 UNPATRIOTIC CONFUSION OF OPINIONS AND INTERESTS
Chapter 23 SOMETIMES TOO LATE TO MEND
Chapter 24 THE FIRST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
Chapter 25 BIG BUSINESS, MONEY-MAKERS AND PATRIOTISM
Chapter 26 SEEKING RETIREMENT FOR LIFE IN THE PEACE OF A COUNTRY HOME
Chapter 27 FREEDOM AND THE WRANGLE FOR PERSONAL GAIN
Chapter 28 SORROW FOR THE DEPARTED SCENES AROUND MOUNT VERNON
Chapter 29 CROWNED IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME 1799
Chapter 30 FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 31 FREEDOM OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Chapter 32 THE WASHINGTON IDEAL AS THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN IDEAL
Chapter 33 NOT BIRTH BUT CHARACTER MAKES AMERICANS
Chapter 34 THE AMERICAN LESSON LEARNED FROM THE GREATEST LEADERS IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA
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