Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 28
... miles to Tekama . " To the heart and hand that placed that small though potent inscription there we might attribute the preservation of our lives . It is needless to say we took courage and retraced our steps . About 12 o'clock at night ...
... miles to Tekama . " To the heart and hand that placed that small though potent inscription there we might attribute the preservation of our lives . It is needless to say we took courage and retraced our steps . About 12 o'clock at night ...
Σελίδα 29
... miles out of my way to get a canteen full of water . Two nights , being unable to reach a house , I lay on the prairie with no covering but the starry decked canopy of heaven , with nothing to break the monotony save the buzz of the ...
... miles out of my way to get a canteen full of water . Two nights , being unable to reach a house , I lay on the prairie with no covering but the starry decked canopy of heaven , with nothing to break the monotony save the buzz of the ...
Σελίδα 30
... miles for Mr. F. Simms to help with his team . Then our cabin with its dirt roof leaking for several days after a rain , the occupants sitting up in bed with a bucket or pan to catch the drops , and after the 30 NEBRASKA STATE ...
... miles for Mr. F. Simms to help with his team . Then our cabin with its dirt roof leaking for several days after a rain , the occupants sitting up in bed with a bucket or pan to catch the drops , and after the 30 NEBRASKA STATE ...
Σελίδα 32
... miles on foot to Wyandotte , on the Ohio river . There I took passage on a steamboat to St. Louis as a deck passenger . I have before me my passage ticket , which read as follows : STEAMBOAT SWATARA . Trip No. 4 . S. F. NUCKOLLS 1846 ...
... miles on foot to Wyandotte , on the Ohio river . There I took passage on a steamboat to St. Louis as a deck passenger . I have before me my passage ticket , which read as follows : STEAMBOAT SWATARA . Trip No. 4 . S. F. NUCKOLLS 1846 ...
Σελίδα 34
... miles long , three broad - upon which the pleasant town site of Nebraska City is situated , to be sold to the highest bidder ? The public build- ings are yet unsold , and the people may at some future day find their happy homes subject ...
... miles long , three broad - upon which the pleasant town site of Nebraska City is situated , to be sold to the highest bidder ? The public build- ings are yet unsold , and the people may at some future day find their happy homes subject ...
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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.