History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri River, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the United States, Հատոր 1F. P. Harper, 1893 - 1364 էջ |
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... Indians ; item , identifies a Mr. Evans as a Welshman " whose original object I believe has been to go in search of the Welsh Indians said to be up the Missouri " : see note 1 , p . 159 , beyond ; item , incloses a transl . of the journ ...
... Indians ; item , identifies a Mr. Evans as a Welshman " whose original object I believe has been to go in search of the Welsh Indians said to be up the Missouri " : see note 1 , p . 159 , beyond ; item , incloses a transl . of the journ ...
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... Indians of the Illinois confederation , who occupied a village about the mouth of Cahokia creek , St. Clair Co ... Indian tribe , and was also called Ocoa . At its mouth was started the town of Portland before 1819 , to rival the old ...
... Indians of the Illinois confederation , who occupied a village about the mouth of Cahokia creek , St. Clair Co ... Indian tribe , and was also called Ocoa . At its mouth was started the town of Portland before 1819 , to rival the old ...
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... Indians as the " Red - head . " It is significant of his repute among them that St. Louis was for them simply the Red - head's town - as we should say , " Clarksville . " pith of this whole matter is in the words of a Sac chief who had ...
... Indians as the " Red - head . " It is significant of his repute among them that St. Louis was for them simply the Red - head's town - as we should say , " Clarksville . " pith of this whole matter is in the words of a Sac chief who had ...
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... Indian character . " Granting that Indians have all the defects of their qualities , and that some of these are peculiar to this remarkably picturesque race of men , it does not follow that there is not as much human nature in an Indian ...
... Indian character . " Granting that Indians have all the defects of their qualities , and that some of these are peculiar to this remarkably picturesque race of men , it does not follow that there is not as much human nature in an Indian ...
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... Indians . These had long been troublesome , and were just then elated at having defeated General Arthur St. Clair's army , in November , 1791. General Anthony Wayne was sent against them , and the militia all along the frontier was ...
... Indians . These had long been troublesome , and were just then elated at having defeated General Arthur St. Clair's army , in November , 1791. General Anthony Wayne was sent against them , and the militia all along the frontier was ...
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History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To ..., Հատոր 1 Meriwether Lewis Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1893 |
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To ..., Հատոր 1 Meriwether Lewis,Elliott Coues Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1893 |
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To ..., Հատոր 1 Meriwether Lewis,Elliott Coues Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1893 |
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Apocrypha appears ARIKARA Assiniboins bank beaver bend BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION Biddle bluffs boat buffalo called camped Captain Clark Captain Lewis Cedar chief Clark's map course Dakota deer distance edition Expedition feet Fort Mandan French Governor Lewis hills horses hunters Indians Jefferson Journal July Kansas Kansas river Kaskaskia killed land large island letter Lewis and Clark Little Sioux river lodges Louis Louisiana low grounds Mahas Mandans MEMOIR OF MERIWETHER MEMOIR OF WILLIAM MERIWETHER LEWIS Milk river Minnetarees Mississippi Missouri morning mountains mouth nation Nicholas Biddle night north side o'clock opposite original Osage Pacific ocean party passed Patrick Gass Paul Allen Pawnees periogue plain Platte prairie present President returned Ricaras river sand-bars shore Siouan Sioux small creek south side Statistical View stream Teton river Tetons three miles timber to-day trade tribes village warriors WILLIAM CLARK wind Yanktons yards wide
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Էջ lxxiii - IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
Էջ lxxii - President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity...
Էջ 256 - We were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden...
Էջ xxiv - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce.
Էջ 306 - They struck him several times, but, instead of weakening the monster, each shot seemed only to direct him towards the hunters, till at last he pursued two of them so closely that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river : the bear sprang after them, and was within a few feet of the hindmost, when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head, and finally killed him. They dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had...
Էջ xxviii - To your own discretion, therefore, must be left the degree of danger you may risk, and the point at which you should decline, only saying, we wish you to err on the side of your safety, and to bring back your party safe, even if it be with less information.
Էջ xx - Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves.
Էջ lxxii - States, and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the Duties of that Office according to Law; and to have and to hold the said Office, with all the Powers, Privileges, and Emoluments to the same of Right appertaining, during the Pleasure of the President of the United States for the Time being.
Էջ xvi - Charlottesville, in the county of Albemarle, in Virginia, of one of the distinguished families of that state. John Lewis, one of his father's uncles, was a member of the king's council, before the Revolution. Another of them, Fielding Lewis, married a sister of General Washington. His father, William Lewis, was the youngest of five sons of Colonel Robert Lewis, of Albemarle, the fourth of whom, Charles, was one of the early patriots who stepped forward in the commencement of the Revolution, and commanded...
Էջ 10 - Indians, and are said to possess fine military capacities ; but, residing as they do in villages, and having made considerable advance in agriculture, they seem less addicted to war than their northern neighbours, to whom the use of rifles gives a great superiority. Among the peculiarities of this people, there is nothing more remarkable than the tradition relative to their origin. According to universal belief, the founder of the nation...