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The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

James Lane Allen

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James Lane Allen
Age: 75 †
Born: 1849
Born: December 21
Died: 1925
Died: February 18
Novelist
Writer
Lexington
Kentucky
Western
Hemp
Dear
Conquered
Became
Scarce
Stronghold
Book
Virginia
Foothold
Remembrance
Strongholds
Farmers
Ancestral
Wilderness
Saxon
Britain
Anglo

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