Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 37
... fact generally known that this vast country possessed agricultural qualities unsur- passed by any portion of our wide - spread country . Stimulated by these facts a few adventurous individuals put a practical test to the productiveness ...
... fact generally known that this vast country possessed agricultural qualities unsur- passed by any portion of our wide - spread country . Stimulated by these facts a few adventurous individuals put a practical test to the productiveness ...
Σελίδα 38
... fact that the Kickapoos , half - breed Missouris , Otoes , and Omahas were not only willing but anxious to sell their lands to the government . In order to facilitate business we determined to call a convention to meet at St. Joseph ...
... fact that the Kickapoos , half - breed Missouris , Otoes , and Omahas were not only willing but anxious to sell their lands to the government . In order to facilitate business we determined to call a convention to meet at St. Joseph ...
Σελίδα 39
... fact , treaty or no treaty . The objective points for town sites and towns was the first thing to be taken into consideration . In order to get ahead of any one else , one Green , Johnson , and myself agreed to locate forthwith at Table ...
... fact , treaty or no treaty . The objective points for town sites and towns was the first thing to be taken into consideration . In order to get ahead of any one else , one Green , Johnson , and myself agreed to locate forthwith at Table ...
Σελίδα 41
... facts Mr. Nuckolls very prudently thought it best not to take the risk , and came home ( after having waited in St. Louis several weeks ) without buying the goods , thus bringing the enterprise to an abrupt termination at least for the ...
... facts Mr. Nuckolls very prudently thought it best not to take the risk , and came home ( after having waited in St. Louis several weeks ) without buying the goods , thus bringing the enterprise to an abrupt termination at least for the ...
Σελίδα 42
... facts and taking advantage of them , they soon formed themselves into a war party and came upon us , painted in a manner most hideous to behold , frightening men , women , and children , ostensibly for the purpose of driving us from ...
... facts and taking advantage of them , they soon formed themselves into a war party and came upon us , painted in a manner most hideous to behold , frightening men , women , and children , ostensibly for the purpose of driving us from ...
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Σελίδα 200 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Σελίδα 171 - That the Legislature of said State, by a Solemn Public Act, shall declare the assent of the said State to the said fundamental condition...
Σελίδα 171 - Approved, April 19th, 1864. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect except upon the fundamental condition, that within the state of Nebraska, there shall be no denial •of the elective franchise, or of any other right, to any person, by reason of race or color, •excepting Indians not taxed...
Σελίδα 34 - to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate to appoint ambassadors...
Σελίδα 183 - Pekitanoui, following the account which the Indians have given me; for from them I learn that advancing up this river for five or six days, you come to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which you must cross to the northwest. It terminates at another little river on which you can embark, it not being difficult to transport canoes over so beautiful a country as that prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake...
Σελίδα 171 - ... the assent of the said state to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the president of the United States, on or before the fourth Monday in November next, an authentic copy of the said act, upon the receipt whereof the president, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of said state into the Union shall be considered as complete...
Σελίδα 183 - As we were discoursing of them, sailing gently down a beautiful, still, clear water, we heard the noise of a rapid into which we were about to fall. I have seen nothing more frightful ; a mass of large trees...
Σελίδα 183 - I learn that advancing up this river for five or six days, you come to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which you must cross to the northwest. It terminates at another little river on which you can embark, it not being difficult to transport canoes over so beautiful a country as that prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake, which is the source of another deep river, running to the west, where it empties into the sea....
Σελίδα 199 - Their masters have no other riches nor substance; of them they eat, they drink, they apparel, they...
Σελίδα 183 - I have seen nothing more frightful; a mass of large trees, entire, with branches, real floating islands, came rushing from the mouth of the river Pekitanoui, so impetuously, that we could not, without great danger, expose ourselves to pass across.