Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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... side , and pitched our tents opposite this place . Mr. Hays and myself crossed in a flat - boat . Was kindly received by Mr. John McMecham and family , at whose house good square meals were dished up by a young boy who grew up to be the ...
... side , and pitched our tents opposite this place . Mr. Hays and myself crossed in a flat - boat . Was kindly received by Mr. John McMecham and family , at whose house good square meals were dished up by a young boy who grew up to be the ...
Σελίδα 37
... wide - spread country . Stimulated by these facts a few adventurous individuals put a practical test to the productiveness of the soil by planting different kinds of grain and vegetable seeds , with the happiest results . Conspicuous ...
... wide - spread country . Stimulated by these facts a few adventurous individuals put a practical test to the productiveness of the soil by planting different kinds of grain and vegetable seeds , with the happiest results . Conspicuous ...
Σελίδα 38
... side of the river , until even the women seemed to excel the men in enthusiasm , even the very chickens as they crowed seemed to hurrah for Nebraska . During the summer of 1853 communications with Indians dis- closed the fact that the ...
... side of the river , until even the women seemed to excel the men in enthusiasm , even the very chickens as they crowed seemed to hurrah for Nebraska . During the summer of 1853 communications with Indians dis- closed the fact that the ...
Σελίδα 39
... wide - spread fratricidal strife , form- ing an epoch in our history both humiliating and degrading to the morality and intelligence of a people possessing all the advantages of a high state of civilization in the nineteenth century ...
... wide - spread fratricidal strife , form- ing an epoch in our history both humiliating and degrading to the morality and intelligence of a people possessing all the advantages of a high state of civilization in the nineteenth century ...
Σελίδα 41
... the whites to leave this side of the river . This of course was a little trying on me , as all that I had was hourly in danger of being confiscated . To make the situation more critical and alarming , the PIONEER REMINISCENCES . 41.
... the whites to leave this side of the river . This of course was a little trying on me , as all that I had was hourly in danger of being confiscated . To make the situation more critical and alarming , the PIONEER REMINISCENCES . 41.
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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.