Annual Report and CollectionsState Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1903 V.29 entitled The Attainment of statehood; v.31 entitled California letters of Lucuis Fairchild. |
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Σελίδα xx - He was particularly efficient in promoting the interests of the former, and, recognizing that " the true university of these days is a collection of books," devoted his energies to the founding of an adequate library for that institution.
Σελίδα xxxvii - This Constitution may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the Society by a vote of twothirds the members present.
Σελίδα lii - ... maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials illustrative of the history of the state; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers, and to obtain and preserve narratives of their exploits, perils, and hardy adventures : to exhibit faithfully the antiquities, and the past and present condition, and resources of Wisconsin; and may take proper steps to promote the study of history by lectures, and to diffuse and publish information relating to the description...
Σελίδα xlix - Wisconsin," and by that name shall have perpetual succession with all the faculties and liabilities of a corporation ; may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts and places; and for the purposes of its institution, may do all such acts as are performed by natural persons.
Σελίδα 37 - ... them. ***** This nation is always at war with the Chippewas, those who destroyed Mishamakinak. They told me with warmth that if ever the Chippewas or any other Indians wished to obstruct the passage of the traders coming up, to send them word, and they would come and cut them off from the face of the earth ; as all Indians were their slaves or dogs.
Σελίδα 41 - Sous, importing that after their ambassadors or chiefs returned, they had called a council of most of the warriors, in which it was agreed to send the following speech to the Indians depending on the Baye, — that I had ^received a belt from them, with a road plain and easy to be found ; they therefore desired, that as the road is now clear, they would by no means allow the...
Σελίδα xxii - Lake region; yet to-day it is a literary rarity. Dr. Draper rode many hobbies in his day. One of them was the collection of autographs of notable people, both for himself and for the Society. In 1887 appeared his...
Σελίδα 36 - It is certainly the greatest nation of Indians ever yet found. Not above two thousand of them were ever armed with fire-arms, the rest depending entirely on bows and arrows and darts, which they use with more skill than any other Indian nation in North America. They can shoot the wildest and largest beasts in the woods, at seventy or one hundred yards distance. They are remarkable for their dancing ; the other nations take the fashion from them.
Σελίδα 144 - Such a sight as presented itself to our view, we never saw before or since. It seemed that the miners were in the habit of assembling there on Saturday nights, to drink, gamble and frolic until Monday morning.
Σελίδα 84 - But their political rights, which might have been retained by complying with the offered terms, were lost by resistance and conquest. The treatment of BLACK HAWK and other prisoners, has often, been matter of animadversion. Of all the men, women and children captured by our regular troops, only eighteen were put in confinement. These constituted the influential men of the tribe, who never flagged in their efforts against the government. BLACK HAWK, it is true, from motives of prudence, being well...