It’s nothing short of amazing. Even the ones like my great grandfathers who only went as far as Iowa and Nebraska and carved out farms and ranches. Survival was almost all on their own heads.
“...Survival was almost all on their own heads....”
A rifle on your shoulder, your wife and children in the wagon, and a hostile wilderness that wants you dead.
And Our People survived, and flourished, and conquered it.
We ARE exceptional, and always have been.