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The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any… — James Fenimore Cooper

The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation... A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

James Fenimore Cooper
The Chainbearer · 1845
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American expansionAmerica
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1845
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Cooper, James Fenimore. The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts. New York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1845, ch. 6.

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