Missourians have peopled the great West even to the golden shores of the peaceful ocean. Pioneers leave their impress upon a State forever in a greater or less degree. If they are a virile race and immigration from stocks other than those from which they sprang does not pour in so as to greatly outnumber the descendants of the original settlers. then the characteristics of the pioneers always remain the dominant characteristics of that peoplevirtues. traits. habits. and even prejudices descending from generation to generation. In no age. in no country. was there ever in any State a set of pioneers of higher qualities than the original settlers of Tennessee. Hers is heroic history from the time when William Bean built the first white mans cabin within her borders to the present hour.
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Pioneers leave their impress upon a State forever in a greater or less degree.