The rollicking boy. the young man and maiden. the stalwart father. the mother. all are there in that great caravan of slowmoving ox wagons. seeking new lands and freedom in the broad West. On a mountain top in the distance a young man lifts aloft the Stars and Stripes. waving hope and encouragement to those below winding slowly on through mountain passes to fairer land beyond. Over all is written this legend: "Westward the course of empire takes its way." For centuries the tide of emigration has been westward. Starting. we are told. on the faraway steppes of central Asia. wave after wave of humanity surged over southwestern Asia into Africa. only to meet the impenetrable desert of Sahara. and afterwards over western Asia and Europe to the long impassable Atlantic. For other centuries the scepter of empire rested on the shores of the Atlantic. shifting from nation to nation until AngloSaxon supremacy was established.
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