Jedediah Smith/second Trip To California 1827%e2%80%931828

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    If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
    —Alexander Smith (1830–1867)

    It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
    —E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)

    This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
    Woody Guthrie (1912–1967)