[The Winning of the West, Volume One by Theodore Roosevelt]@TWC D-Link bookThe Winning of the West, Volume One CHAPTER XII 52/87
He says that of the immigrants to Kentucky, most had come "from the neighboring States of Carolina and Georgia," and shows that this is not a mere slip of the pen, by elaborating the statement in the following paragraphs, again speaking of North and South Carolina and Georgia as furnishing the colonists to Kentucky.
This shows a complete misapprehension not only of the feeding-grounds of the western emigration, but of the routes it followed, and of the conditions of the southern States.
South Carolina furnished very few emigrants to Kentucky, and Georgia practically none; combined they probably did not furnish as many as New Jersey or Maryland.
Georgia was herself a frontier community; she received instead of sending out immigrants. The bulk of the South Carolina emigration went to Georgia. APPENDIX C--TO CHAPTER VI. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, NASHVILLE, TENN., June 12, 1888. Hon.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, SAGAMORE HILL, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. DEAR SIR: I was born, "raised," and have always lived in Washington County, E. Tenn.
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