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the melting pot the united states is often called a >melting 4s pot because immigrants lrom all over the world have become one people who share a common culture in the words of john f kennedy the usa is a nation of immigrants the first immigrants in american history s0 came from england and the netherlands the first oermanent english settlement was established ai jamestown virginia in 1607 s during the hundred and fifty years the american colonies were part of the british empire immigrants from france germany scotland and ireland and jews found freedom from religious persecution in america during roo

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wages others were convinced that immmigrants were a threat to american values and lifestyles consequently immigration quota laws began to be introduced in the 1920s the number of immigrants was limited allowing more northern european immigrants than southern no africans were admitted at all by 1929 the annual quota of immigrants 55 had been reduced to 132,000 northern europeans and 20,000 lrom southern and eastern europe most ol the european immigrants were poor peasants who were attracted to america by the free farmland in the west but most of them actually settled in the growing cities ol the north and midwest here their unskilled labor powered the industrial expansion of the u.s d i mmigrants p hoto c ulver p ictu res the same period thousands of negroes were brought to america as slaves when the united states declared its independence on july 4 1775 about 4 million people lived in the thirteen colonies and of these three million were of english blood between 1820 and 1973 the united states r tttants who were they by region i 821-1980 admitted more than 46 million immigrants three out of four came from europe the waves of immigration reached a peak in the years 1880 to 1914 up to the first world war american policy was to allow unlimited and unrestricted immigration except for >orientals paupers imbeciles and prostitutes in the early 1900s workers organizations were worried that the never-ending supply of cheap labor would hold down i !821-60 asia t latin americ and a and eastern western europe europe southern nohern canada olher mvz%nie t90r-30 r9t1-60 l96r-70 l91l including africa 35 source u.s immigration and naturalization seruice how many came immigrants by decade l82l-1980 1821 1831 lb41 l85t 1830 -1840 -1850 1860 1861 1 -1870 871 1881 1891 1880 -1890 1900 1901 191 -1910 1920 1930 1 1921 1931 1961 1940 1974 l4

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most of the immigrants of the 1880 to period were catholic and many of them came from eastern and southern europe in the cities they tended to stick together with people of the same national background so that whole sections or ghettos of industrial l9l4 scattered throughout the nation in chicago for example there are almost two million cities were german or italian or polish or yiddish speaking communities these ghettos were isolated from each other but also from l0 l5 the white anglo-saxon protestants or wasps whose standards and culture were seen as >real american because of their religion and language immigrants often met hostility and prejudice but as the children and grandchildren of immigrants were born in america and received public education they gradually became americanized a process that was encouraged by intermarriage and military service during world war ii some 1,360,000 american indians now live in the united states most live in the west but many are in the south and north central areas of the more than 300 separate black residents more than three times as many as in 1940 new york state has the largest black population 2,402,000 an increase of close to one million in 20 years every l0 years the united states makes a complete count or census of its people and industries today there are more than 226 million americans in the past 20 years many people have moved to the western and southern parts of the country california on the pacific coast now has the nation s largest population and the atlantic coast state of new york is second the united states now has more than 7 million young people between the ages of 5 and 24 5 million less than in 1960 and there are 25.5 million persons over the age of 65 one-third more than in 1960 the american people are always on the 65 move from one part of the country to tribes the largest 25 is the navaho in the as mentioned above first brought to america from africa as slaves they were declared free by abraham lincoln in 1863 in the emancipation decla southwest black people were ration the blacks now make up nearly l2 percent of the population they once lived mainly in the agricultural south but now are another from one city to another from farm to city from the city to the suburbs one in five americans moves to a new home every year seeking new job opportunities a better climate or for other reasons today three out of four americans live in towns cities or suburbs about 54 million live in rural areas two-thirds of all families live in separate households and more than 65 percent own their own homes 80 the racial and ethnic origins asian-americans are growing faster than any other single group largely because of immigration american asians and spanish white biack indian eskimo aleut 792,730 1,41 8,195 pacific islanders 1,538 l21 3,500,636 origin 9,072,602 14,608,6 7 3 other 1970 1980 percent increase 178,098,000 i88,340,790 5.8 22,580,289 26.488.218 17.3 516,67 3 6,7 56,996 7l .8 t27.6 61.0 1,20 7.0 using i 970 classification procedures which were changed for the i 980 census would have produced these approximate totals whites i 95 i million blacks 26,6 million and asians and pacific islanders 3,3 million source bureau of the census l5

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the wild mest the united states of america dates of entry into the union canada greal lakes gn texas u opening up the west by vicki itzkowitz the so created united states of america bought the opening up of southern and western ameriia began in 1803 when the recently sent mississippi valley from the french and the area out a small party to explore and map ite expeoiiion led by lewis and clark had 2 7 roo

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remarkable success mainly due to the efforts young woman named sacajawea she traveled with them for thousands of miles carryring her baby on her back theirjourney was peaceful in of their shoshone indian guide a marked contrast years to the violence of later 1 a part oj the united states 1g45 americans rterepressittg on toward the pacific to the rich almost empt regions of the oregon country and california the trails shotptt on the map were ones usuallv taken b.v pioneer n.agon trains in the lg40s became in may 1848 a man ran down the main street of the tiny town of san francisco yujng a bottle of yellowish dust and shouting gold gold from the america riu rt i7 these was kit carson who founded his own company of scouts called carson,s before winter each group was guided by a scout the most famous and successful of men the settlers knew they must reach their destination drowning and indian attacks in order tl travel ss along one of the great western trails attracted by the government,s promise of free land in fertile valleys the migrants keeping together for protection traveled from the a eastern states in canvas_covered wagons or f 60 containing all their possessions one oith earliest destinations was oregon and many covered wagons had the legend ,oregon or bust painted on their sides ihe wagon trains commonly began their journeys from inde os pendence missouri the ,jumping off place of the_frontier usually in early spring for in the 1840s thousands of families risked death from starvation disease exposure zo .t s r the oregort trait scotrs nest on bluffitt tlit r estern nebraska as a n,el coming sight for the pioneers believed this was the midpoint of their journey the prairie schooner was superbly designed for piotteers heading jourrrc-t for itsjob oftransporting pioneer fanzilies and their goocls on the five-month-long 2,000 mite yygg1 j.tr;fr lt ti.z:i i!i ffu

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s r0 profitable cattle business depended on ,t cowboy far from romantic his life consisted of long hours of dreary repetitive work the rs big events of the year were the spring and fall roundups and the driyes north to tle cattle markets of the rail towns after living on the trail for up to four months the cowboys 20 cowtowns as abilene wichita and dodge city the cowboys were sworn enemies of sheepherders claiming that sheep ,rln.a waterholes and cropped grasslands occasionally warfare broke out between cowboys 25 and sheep farmers ever_increasing numbers of traders miners and settlers moved west conflict with a sold them supplies made the most monev by the time the civil war began in ig6t texas was a ,cattle kingdom th e immensely died and the traders and business n wildest dreams though one in five forty-niners there was wealth beyond their lives and joined the mad rush for some of the in history by 1849 there seemed to be ,o.ld id stampede to california clerks and farmers whole ships crews abandoned their fo began the greatest gold rush p.orp to to their destination in ,indian battles forcefully removed from their homelands and made to march hundreds of miles to n usually barren reservations in tg3g and 1839 4,000 cherokees perished ulor ,fr i trail of tears,from their c orgiuio.i iura t o the cavalry wounded dance were almost completely south dakota a band of indiansgo nua gathered ro perform the visionarv sides in december 1g90 at is now oklahoma resistance tea to utooay with many tales of massu f.riito.y _1ru1 i orr worna.jfi ciort uo headed enthusiastically for the saloom of rr.t as :o of their history that many americans gu.a with shame land treaties were ,ignj?a then broken repeatedly whole trif,es-were the building of the transconti govemment s treatment of the indians is the indian tribes became inevitable ifr part the rest of the world oakley the sharpshooting wornan;h a europe buffalo bill pony e;o r.ilj hunter scout and creator of ,fr wifa w show that brought the legend of the w st to mountain man jesse james il aj;l reputation as a bank robber wyatt nr.p itr iawman some claimea was oi-ir i and trailblazer who was known u ,fr hard work and loneliness in .uu inr iia farmhouses yet the names of some westem ers stand out and have become part of the legend of the west john colter fr o become a powerful symbol fo fralr ioauy was the last battle of the indian the story of the american west isihe story of thousands of nameless irdi idr ir f ing and brave men and women fr p;rg better life in a new land and u lo,irg a?ri .ip.a iiy fr ii f iu wars 65 o.ililuf fornia and the union pacific rtetttal railroad turnetl itio o race betu,een the central pacijic build ing eas out of sacramento cali ne a handmader railroad 1,776 miles of track the centralpacific,s r la bor braska the transcorttinental y,as building west out of omaha problem u,as solved b1 and civil clritrese reterans of the gold rush eventually thousa trtls of norkers v ere recruited fi.om china itself the y,orkers of the union lrarili trere a mi.rture of irish innigrattts hiring lines ntet at promontotl p hot o h eri tage p ri nts llar veterans the two utah sonte 70 tniles northwes:t of satt lake ciry on malt 10 lb69

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spoil the child by howard fast s the first morning pa was gone i tried to ride but maude told ma and ma licked me ma one of the mules i didn,t think that would hurt because the mules were unharnessed anyway >you shut up i i told maude i d remember l0 pa left about six in the morning while ma still slept >goin after meat r i asked him he had his rifle he nodded was in the wagon and she wouldn,t have seen fifteen and pretty she had light hair and a thin delicate face ma said that someday maude would be a lady she didn t expect much from me she said i would be like pa i walked away from the wagon looking for chips by now pa was out of sight and where he had gone the prairie was just a rollof yellow told her maude was 55 l5 >kin i go >stay with ma sonny he said >she ain,t well >you said i could hunt >you stay with ma sonny frightened me and brown a thread of cloud above it it frightened me to be alone on the prairie pa laughed at it and called it a big meadow bur it 65 maude got up a few minutes after that uo could see pa like a black dot out on the prairie i pointed to him i this way he d cross the mountains grow much he said we had been on the prairie for a week now pa said in another few weeks we,d reach fort lee due west he said that if he had cattle stock he d settle down right on the prairie i said >that s pa out there huntin maude was combing her hair not paying a lot of attention to me then i tried to ride the zs mule pa would never let me ride his horse it dollars ma was always saying we could have lived a year on what that horse cost fruit maybe in california ma never believed 70 was only half-broken cost four hundred driver s seat >you might gimme a hand said i went back to the wagon and started a fire ma had gone inside and maude sat on the 15 >i don t see you overworking i told maude maude maude woke ma my mother was a tall :o thin woman tired looking she wasn t well i could see that she wasn,t well >dave get >where s pa >went out to hunt i5 >come here can t ever get it into your head to behave i wentover and she slapped my face >don t bother them mules when,ll he be back we can t stay here off that mule she said 40 >he didn t say >get some chips for a fire ma told me >rmy land i never see such alazy shiftless boy but she didn t say it the way she always did as if she would want to bite my head off 4s boy of twelve you didn,t expect them to be bad that young she seemed too tired to really care i guess ma licked me every day she said was bad a lot worse than you,d expect from i a so maude called 30 ryou learn to leave the mules alone i put the water on the fire not saying anything >you d better learn to shut up from inside the wagon ma yelled >you s0 hold your tongue dave or l,ll wallop you >you re a little beast maude said >you wait i told her i went to the keg drew some water and set it up to boil i could tell by the sound that there ss wasn t a lot of water left in the keg pa had said we d reach water soon when i came back to the fire i glanced up at the sky [t was an immense bowl of hot blue bare except for a single buzzard that tumed so slowly,like a fish swimming i guess i forgot i kept looking up at the buzzard ma climbed down from the wagon slowly >you re the same as your pa she said laiy an bad her face was tight-drawn for the ,rs past few weeks she had hardly smiled and now it seemed that she wouldn,t smile again >and fresh maude said roo

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spare the rod and spoil the child ma said then her face twisted in pain and she leaied against the wagon >well don t stand there she told me water the mules i went to the keg i knew there wasn t enough water for the mules i hoped pa would come back soon i had a funny awful fear of r0 the kind they called freighters with a hooped top covered over with dirty brown canvas maude said >you leave me alone >i ll leave you alone now i told maude >i gotta leave you alone now maybe you know what s the matter with ma >that s none of your business maude sixteen-foot wagon said if he didn t come back soon i kept glancing out at the prairie pa had an itch in his feet ma said i would grow up the same way having an itch in my what would happen >it s my business all right >you re just a kid feet she was always sorry that she had married a man with an itch in his feet l5 i went to the back of the wagon and pulled out pa s carbine it was the one he had used during the war a short cavalry gun ma saw me she lay inside and sometimes she said that the war had done it i could hear 65 that after the war between the north and the south men were either broken or had to keep moving like pa always west we lived in columbus then we moved to st louis then to topeka pa couldn t stop and ma got more and more wom out she said that a wild land was no place to raise children it was hard on ma all right pa didn t do much except when we were moving west and then he would be like a different person ma never complained to him she licked me instead her breathing hard she said >what re you up to now;pa back >not yet >well you tell me soon as he gets back and don t get into any mischief >all right in front of the wagon i sat down on a feed box and cleaned the gun with an old rag maude watched me finally she said >i m gonna tell ma you re fooling with pa s gun >you keep your mouth shut ma groaned softly then and we both turned around and looked at the wagon i felt little shivers crawl up and down my spine where was pa he should have been-back already i put down the gun and walked around the wagon in a circle the prairie rose and fell,like a sea of whispering yellow grass there was nothing there no living thing maude was crying ,why don t pa come back she said i didn t answer her i guess it occurred to me for the hrst time that pa might not come back i felt like crying i felt like getting into a corner and crying i hadn t felt so small for a long time it would be a comfort to have ma lick me now you get licked and you know 25 i gave the mules enough water to cover the bottoms of their pails ma came over said >that s not enough water >there ain t a damn sight more >don t swear ma exclaimed she clapped a hand across my head >he s always swearing maude 35 said >thinks he s grown up ma stared at me a moment dully then she went over and prepared breakast it was gruel and hardtack >fresh meat would be good ma said she looked over the prairie maybe looking for pa i knew how much she cared for pa she would talk a lot about itching feet but that didn t matter 45 you re a kid and you don t have to worry about anything else after breakfast i gave the mules some oats and maude cleaned up the dishes i kept i said to maude >go inside the wagon and 95 glancing at maude and she knew what i meant she didn t care until ma went into the wagon it hurt me to look at ma >he ll be back soon i guess ma said then she climbed into the wagon it was a big stay with ma >don t you order me around >ail right i said i turned my back on her i didn t hold much with girls when they re that age 100 3i

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i 1 ffit then maude went inside the wacrr i treard her crying and i heard ma say >you stop that done pa had to be buried i knew that men had to crying right now i loaded the carbine i untethered one ofthe mules climbed onto it and set out across the prairie in the direction pa had taken i didn t know just what i d do but i knew it was time pa came back i couldn t do it the prairie was hard baked mud i went back to pa and stood over him i guess that was the hardest thing i had ever done in my life i straightened his clothes i pulled offhis boots men in the west be buried but 55 were always talking about dying with their boots on i didn t know how it meant anything one way or another but i thought pa would be pleased if he didn t have his boots on it t0 wasn t easy riding the mule just with harness straps mules have a funny gait and we didn t go very fast i was glad ma and maude were in the wagon otherwise ma would probably lick the pants offme ln about a half hour the wagon was just a tiny black dot [t might have been anything i kept glancing at the sun to remember the direction i had taken then a swell hid the wagon i kept on going i knew that if i stopped even for a little while,i d cry my head then i climbed up on the mule and started back for the wagon i tried not to think that i was twelve years old [f you get to thinking about that then you re no good at all when i got back ma would lick me plenty the mule must have found its way back because i didn t pay much attention to that i let the reins loose holding onto the harness straps and i kept swallowing then i saw the wagon off i saw a coyote he stood like a dog and watched me an antelope hopped close and i might have shot at him but i couldn t bring myself to fire a rifle there it would have done something to me i found pa i guess i had been riding for about an hour when i thought can t tell ma now maybe later nobody had ever told me about a thing like that but i knew it wouldn t do to tell ma now i guess i only felt it instinctively but i knew that the importance wasn t in pa any more all that was important was life and life was just a fleck of dust in the prairie it was like a nightmare to think of the distance ol the prairie and how we were alone i rode up to the wagon and maude and ma were both standing next to it i could tell lrom ma s face how worried she had been about me side a i saw him over to one buzzard flapped up and i felt my throat tighten until i thought it would choke me i didn t want to go over to him i got down from the mule and i walked over slowly but i didn t want to something made me he was dead all right maybe it was indians and maybe it wasn t i didn t know he was shot four times and his gun was gone the buzzard wouldn t go away i shot the buzzard.i didn t cry the carbine kicked back and made my shoulder ache i was thinking about how pa always called me an undersized lreckled little runt he said i wouldn t grow up >there he is maude screamed ma said guess there ain t nothing a body can do with you dave get offthat mule i slipped off tethered the mule my whole body was twisted up with the strain of keeping what i had seen off my face i came over to ma 45 maybe that s why i didn t cry i went away a little distance and sat down i didn t look at pa i tried to remember where we were what pa had told me about going west when i thought of ma i had a sense of awful fear suppose it happened now the mule walked over and nuzzled my shoulder i was glad the mule was there then if z he wasn t i don t know what i would have >where you been she demanded >hunting >i reckon there s nothing else for a little loafer like you spare the rod and spoil the child come here i went over and bent down and .she walloped me a bit not too hard she wasn t very strong then i guess i cried but i wasn t crying because of the licking i had had worse 95 r00

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lickings than that and never opened my mouth but it seemed to break the tension inside of me and i had to cry i went over and sat down with my back against one of the wagon wheels maude walked past me and said >i guess that learned you ,why don t pa come back >ain t no sense thinking about pa if he ain t here what about ma i guess it won t be long she shook her head >you don t need to be scared i muttered >it won t do no good to be scared i reckon the lo i just looked at her without answering i took out my jack-knife and began to pare at one of the wagon boards then my eyes traveled to the water keg i got up and went around to ma she was still standing there staring off across the prairie in the direction pa had gone worst part of this trip is over >where s pa she whispered >what happened l5 without turning she said to me >seen anything ofyour pa >no the sun was westward now a splotch of red that blazed the whole prairie into a fire i could get a little of how ma felt i could see the loneliness >get a fire going she said >he ought to have enough sense to come back early stop that whimpering god help a woman when a man has itching feet i gathered chips and started the fire when i took water from the keg for mush the keg was just about empty i didn t mention that to ma >how do i know what happened you girls make me sick i never seen anything to beat you girls i got up and went over to the water keg i shook it hoping without having any reason to hope i knew it was just about empty we had plenty of food dried meat and meal and dried beans enough to last a month i guess but ma would need water maude was crying ,why don t you go to bed i told her 65 >don t order me around >well you go to bed i said >go in and sleep with ma i ll stay out here >you re not big enough to stay out here alone maude said but i knew she was afraid to stay inside the wagon with ma i knew how she felt and i didn t blame her for the way she felt she was such a kid with ma petting her all tjle time we couldn t talk it over between ourselves and that would have made it a lot better but we couldn t >i m plenty big enough i said inside the wagon ma groaned and out on the prairie a coyote was barking there s nothing like a coyote barking to make your insides crawl.i was all shivers and i could see that maude wanted to stay close to me but that wouldn t have made it any better >get in the wagon damn you i cried i was glad ma couldn t hear me swear ma would lick me good and plenty when i swore like that surprised maude stared at me then without a word she went into the wagon i stood there outside for a while it had grown quite dark in the sky there was a faint reflected light of the sun but it was quite dark i walked over to the wagon and picked up one of the mule blankets that hung on the shafts she went about preparing supper slowly awkwardly and maude watched her frightened 35 45 ma kept glancing at the west dark soon i said >guess pa ll be here any minute ma said dully i could tell that she didn t believe that >i guess so i nodded we ate without speaking much ma didn t eat a great deal as soon as we had finished she went into the wagon maude was saying >i don t see how i can clean dishes without water you fetch some water dave >there ain t no water i said maude stared at me her eyes wide and frightened she had heard stories just the same as i had about pilgrims who ran out of water she opened her mouth to say some be 95 thing >what about ma 50 i asked her quietly nodding at the wagon it jj

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was a warm night summer-time i decided to put the blanket under the wagon and lie down on it silence of the prairie in the wagon someone screamed the [ndian stopped seemed to stare at me swayed a bit and crumpled to the i 5 heard maude saying her prayers in the ground i remember the sharp pain in my ro wagon but no sound from ma i couldn t say my prayers usually ma saw to it that i did but tonight i couldn t say a word aloud i tried opening my mouth but no words came out i thought them as much as i could i tried not to think about pa spreading the blanket i lay down on it holding the carbine close to me it seemed a part of pa and all that was left i hugged it shoulder from the blow of the recoil shot threw sand in my face i had a few cartridges and caps in my pocket and i tried frantically to reload the cartridges slipped through my fingers then the indian was gone he had taken the other horse with him and i heard their hoofs thundering across the prairie i dropped the carbine my shoulder ached terribly inside the mounted man s horse had wheeled about he pulled it back and fired at me the i couldn t sleep i tried for a long time but i rs couldn t sleep [t was quite dark now with no moon in the sky the mules were moving restlessly probably because they wanted water 65 the wagon maude was whimpering my mother groaning i think i dozed a little when i opened my 20 eyes again the moon was just coming up yellow and bloated i felt chilled thoroughly bit by bit what had happened during the day came back and now it was all more real than it had been in the daytime while i lay there zs thinkingaboutit i heard horses hoofs atfirst not noticing them and only becoming aware of them when the horses bulked out of the night two men riding slowly i climbed from under the wagon the indian lay on his back his face hard and twisted i stood there looking at him maude climbed down out of the wagon >what is it she cried then she saw the indian and screamed >all right i shot him she stood there holding her hand to her mouth 75 they were in the moonlight and i was :o hidden in the shadow of the wagon they didn t see me they stopped just about a dozen yards lrom the wagon sitting on their horses >you get back in the wagon i guess he killed pa all right don t tell that to ma she shook her head ma was groaning >i can t go back maude said >why and then i knew i should have known from the way ma was groaning i went up to maude and slapped her face she didn t seem to feel it and eyeing the mules the mules moved restlessly 35 when i realized they were indians i couldn t move just lay there and watched i slapped her again >get in there with ma >i can t it s dark >get in there i yelled 85 them they were naked to the waist with their hair in two stiff braids to their shoulders they both carried rifles 40 i thought of pa i thought of screaming to wake maude and ma i thought >if they shot pa they were cutting loose the mules i felt for the carbine twisted around soi +s lay on my belly one of the men had we had lanterns on the outside of the wagon i took one and lit it i wasn t trembling so much now i gave the lantern to maude who was still standing the way she had been before >go inside so i said maude climbed into the wagon taking dismounted and was coming toward the wagon he held his gun in one hand and had drawn a knife with the other i sighted the centre ofhis breast and fired s0 i remember how the sound blasted out the 34 lantern with her then i cried i crouched under the wagon clutching the carbinq and crying the es finally i went over to the indian i lorced myself to do that he lay hall across the rifle roo

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he had carried i pulled it out and it was my r father s rifle all right ijor t holding t now how long i stood there the seat along the rifle then i put it under i i it iarbine i didn t want to look at the wagon rubbing my eyes i won t maude nodded come ma called me not very loud >dave here was lying climbed inside the wagon ma i onif l a ner arrn curled around something i s5 over to iwalked over to the mules led them them i had the shafts it was hard to harness on the shafts to get at their io uut^r myself all over and ro backs when it was done i ached where the carbine my shoulder was swollen had rested peered at it >do you know she said ,i r r.on i do i reckon it s a boy girls ain t much were ma was crying not much her eyes use 60 ihe whip was fourteen feet long and i couldn t moving jo rr t with it but i got the mules to find had to keep moving we had ,o it curtams climbed to the driver s seat the into the wagon were down and i couldn t see iuiif light still burned taking downi pa s had whip t tei it go onto the mules backs he let me try pu do that and sometimes i iust wetting themselves slowly >where are we ma asked me been traveling through the night we don t need there s a river outthere i guess to worry about water >all right pa back night t ,uia itoly t >i killed an indian last e os ma he had pa s gun then she just stared y water at was night under the moon the prairie somehow it black and silver at the same time the frighten me the way it had during didn t at me and i stood to another there strifting from one foot there it must wanting to nrn away but i stood didn t iur u about five minutes and she whimwas tuy-unyttlng at all the baby ro ofnothing at juy i saith r thinking i guess aware of the change inside utt o ty awfully me pering ft n she said >you hamessed the mules >uh-huh maude didn t help me 1s ,to fu so the freighter wouldn t roll much i didn t use ,o i u very tired and after a while the whip at all sat then maude came out of the wagon at me and i down next to me she looked she looked at her but she didn t say anything at a we drove on like that i kept the mules you ma said >you don t tease maude or i ll take a stick to you i don t teuse maude never seen a boy like you for teasing 80 :s pressed close to me i whistled at the mules whimperinside the wagon something was me tremble to hear that ing it made >it >just like your pa ma whispered whose heels are don t pay to have a man always itching it don t pay ,no ura cryin i said ma said >what are we going to do >uh-huh i nodded 8s west ain t hard now to go a few be hard frura a miles more reckon it won t g rreckon we ll find water soon i told maude head kept she nodded mechanically her myself i guess i kept nodding and i dozed toward dozing through the night fell asleep mornlng m;r 45 pa said trembling ma was staring at me her mouth look just like thatbefore seen her t nuar t r t put my head down on her breast to eo i wanted hide it there iutin t do that i said >pa told me we ll 95 woke me the wagon had stopped had unj,n tm was an hour up the mules stream stopped on the bank of a slow brown i could see iin o i,f cottonwoods as far as maude was pointing at the water you stafl crying now i salo gowest j +r the then i went outside i sat down on i heard the r seat iooking at the river baby making noises >a man feels funny with iiaid to maude a kid 35 r00 >don t

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glossary trykstreger markerer tryk 8 pi efterfotgende stavelse tryk di s s pi lorste stavelse er kun angivet undtagelsesvis t i trct ive forskellig on an average day in america tat,erage gennemsnit major storsl vigtigst et t i e men scorrlr brande svide fiercely voldsom barsk border granse selrle befolke kolonisere t bebyggelse boplads dandrltff skal pet kaledyr tcentetn kirkegard coastal kyststrrp strimmel bricklayer murer rape voldtage ille gitintate fodt uden for agteskab con ceire undfange arti ficial kunstig parachute springe ud med faldskzerm serze konfiskere x ed gifte sig l0 ct u re r producent sftore bred strand s to c kya rd kreaturstald tna rt ufa valley dal cattletnen kvagfolk stock ith cattle bruge til grasning lor kvag t2 pas i u grain korn di visiott inddeling n tillokkelse tiltreekningskraft grovt th veksl pop u la t i o tt belolkning indbyggertal stugtnation stilstand trru n ufa ct u ri ttg traditione i industriproduktion high-rech higlt technolog hojteknologi space rumfart rumfartsatt t ract io re grzes gresgang e r entuall til sidst i sidste instans huge megel stor umadelig foothills udlsbere af bjergkede ca p i ta i hov edstad centrum ge ologist geolog ntet ro p oiiion storby desert orken fea rfu di r,orce blive skilt dis chatge algive sedinrent aflejring signboard skllt label etiket i frygtindgydende frygtelig rural landgarbage aflald vat s ec to m i sterilisation ved overskaring af sadstrengene a rt i ma pre sente bevare i rri g at e vande overrisle m o rtno trs religios sekt grundlagt forest skov p iusa i u 1830 rai rie prarie grassteppe i s hel ter dyrev&rns forening clothespin tojklemme toll vejafgift /rog svin su fertile frugtbar soii jord jordbund farming iandbrugscorn majs cattle kvag uas uhyre umidelig co ttt tttu tti t t samfund aq ed ltc t vandledning l3 scale milestok omfang lsiarr asiatisk h i spart ic spansktalende 1ega1 lovlig legal trade erhverv t he pa c ifi c stillehavet bv a i undergrundsbane cotmmuter train lokal tog poultry flerkre ntoist flugtig narbane dairy mejeri trolley spor togn discipline irettesette give en nesc ll civil u:ar borgerkrig ag board kommission barge pram printe-tinte 7 z udsendelserne i den bedste sendetid om altenen pregrtanl gravid rssae udstede ri c u i tu ra i iandbrugs cargo ladning last lintber tommer tra cotton bomdd crop afgrade recettlt i den senere tid i de senere face vende mod have lront mod gold rush guldfeber mot poiitan international castonr skik ntgged vild [orreven co s ir raise dyrke s u b t rop ica i subtropisk gatex,at port dvej grairr korn slr,a11on sluge et nrc rge ncv roonl skadestue ntinittg minedrilt lltntber tommer co rpo rat io rt fi rma selskab oilstrike olielund planttation plantage destitt.r,skabne the melting pot rne lt i ng t iayer v&rtshus generate frembringe hazardolts h,aste giltigt affald settler kolonist nybygger rapid hurtig rask foroge vokse rygrad rhovedarsag search efrersagning i n c reas e pitteapple ananas di sposable engangse rt crcio ped ia leksikon 9 bac k bo ne rnixture blanding s pot stabeske smeltedigel the land srrercft strakke sig udbud lorsyning labor arbejdskrafl ntake up udgore u pp 11 he net he rla nds nederlandene i e holland main hovedoffer byde pa plain slette gitte out slippe op i m ag i na feature lrak highn,a.r hovedvej n tankt usynlig t bebyggelse koloni h oprette grundlregge entpire imperium pe rsetc lt tio n lorfolgelse se tn en e s tabiisp rec io us kostbar dyrebar tt4

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l4 re erklere bekendtgore i nd e,p enden ce uafhangighed yd,mit give adgang de,c i a de ntand krave sli11 lardighed e pea pauper fattiglem fattig person k hojdepunk r ku i minarion lack mangle tn tp i o.r meni profession erhverv ex,cep iionai usedvanlig enestaende bes kaftigelse g oo d s-p rod ucingv are atbilit.t evne t timbecile indsslov person tabe su,pplv tilforsel udbud overbevise producerende hig h-tech n h e sc i en ces naturvidenskaberne high technologl labor arbejdskraft co tt t i tt ce q uo hojteknologi hite-co i la threat trussel t a kv ota lorholdsmessig flip a ccount b iu r lunktionar egl hvid udgore the arts de humanistiske fag rc quire krave behove em,p i o ve r arbejdsgiver for i9 skilled n orker faglert arbejder des ig na te angive udpege ttt short supp{t som der er mangel pi andel e-co i la tpeasanls smabonder og landarbejdere annual drlig lrade erhverv gap kloft svalg tn it tt o ri t.t r industri arbejder poverfi fattigdom minoritet mindretal h i,spa n ic spansktalende ittcotne spectru m lonstige ionskala refugee flygtning leg ist la t i on atttract tillrakke se1t1e lovgivning sli sig ned unskilled ulaglart ponter drive frem l5 katolik katolsk tetrd to vrre tilbojelig til stick toget her holde sammen yiddish jiddisch sprog der tales af @steuropas joder en blanding alhebraisk og tysk eller polsk a ttg i o s a xo c a t ho i ic t7 endii re udgift lorbrug shelter her bolig soar stige kraftigt exp taustrian ostrigsk tnuscular muskulos atc h i eve klare sig tilfredsstillende opna arnold schwarzenegger u /ai1 mislykkes falde igennem single out udmarke udskille bo t to nt iine mindstekrav co tt,se c ut ivel8 general information for applicants for immigrant visas gen era i almindelig generel applicant ansoger lrsa visum pdtegning p6 pas om indrejsetilladelse desire snske hinanden c b i trak efter n angelsaksisk engelsk engelsktalende ha mpio tt s lt ip mesterskab standard norm h o,st iiity fi endtlighed prejudice fordom at nt e ri ca n iz e e amerikanisere n courage opmuntre tilskynde intef ntarriage egteskab mellem medlemmer af to grupper /nde stamme t lt re,late to ang e e nru n c itp frigivelseserkleringen make up udgore poput la tion befolkning agri,cu i tu ra i landbrugspreget scaller sprede trcsident indbygger e i n c reas ati o n d ecl a ra ri o n spetcific serlig resident indbygger rets i ri ct io rt begrensning number anlal rettire trekke sig tilbage cotlttpete konkurrere p hys ica i lv fysisk legemligt trccog tt ize anerkende geniende belong hore til heayen himmel himmerioo o bs.t a cl e t i orirg iori-irerire make aware gore opmaerksom p6 a ppreciate sette pris p6 annual irlig n vardsatte u nt e ri ca i l.r talmassigt med ve slagtning hensyn til antal i rna,joritr ftertal a cco unti ng adtvantage fordel fortrin regnskabsforing re iati pirorende spouse agtefrelle bogholderi 20 treal etstate flast ejendom atpo vakst stigning ntinor mindrelrig clrzer statsborger p tural land landlig count optell;ne censrs folketalling t h e patciji c stillehavet oppo rtt u t1 i tt mulighed chance stbrrrb forstad lawful lovformelig t rett io us i 1 tidligere for il nten t bu i ld i ng beboelses e ntp o e tres i d ra ry n ce ophold practice have som erhverv arbejde som midlertidig bopal ejendom e motiott falelse slore awq.t gemme vek co tnp ett i t io tl konkurrence household husstand tnittister prast d e no nt i naiio rt e i tt t e rtfe re her forstvrre trosretning t6 re teal afslore vise som nyt slightl.r en smule lidt pink collar nedsettende om typiske kvindeerhverv rnale mand dropout frafald noget recotntntend anbefale tn p i o.rnee her funktioner fo nn e r tidligere forhenvarende iint i tat iott begransning de pe tt par a ilention /o koncentrere sig clta nnel lede kanalisere tconlesl konkurrence se/y slr egoistisk bensiiue folsom su ppress undertrykke de nl tt erri to t landomr6de der ikke har status iom stat f.eks puerto rico admir give adgang goal mil mr nice g2,1 >venligheden selv b/ren udlanding desert orken i 15

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