"Statehood" Quotes from Famous Books
... of Washington to statehood a land endowment was granted to the state by the federal government for common school purposes which in round numbers totals nearly two and one-half millions of acres. This land is offered for sale or lease by the state, through the office of the state land commissioner, and the proceeds ... — A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell
... States soldiery and newly organized North West Mounted Police crossed and recrossed the international boundary between the American Northwest and what was then known as the "Whoop Up Country." This heterogeneous flotsam and jetsam held some of the material from which Montana evolved its later statehood. ... — A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman |