Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 27
... in a ravine where now stands the beautiful and wealthy city of Omaha . LOOKING FOR SHELTER . The next day , in company with Mr. Hays , I started for Tekama . The first night out we experienced a terrible thunder storm.
... in a ravine where now stands the beautiful and wealthy city of Omaha . LOOKING FOR SHELTER . The next day , in company with Mr. Hays , I started for Tekama . The first night out we experienced a terrible thunder storm.
Σελίδα 28
... started back to Muscatine , Iowa , for my family , on foot , a distance of over three hundred miles , with a little " grub , " a quart canteen , and two and one - half dollars in my pocket . 28 NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
... started back to Muscatine , Iowa , for my family , on foot , a distance of over three hundred miles , with a little " grub , " a quart canteen , and two and one - half dollars in my pocket . 28 NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
Σελίδα 35
... started out 4,000 teamsters , with 3,000 wagons , and over 30,000 head of oxen . Their business was managed by Alexander Majors , Esq . , in a manner that gained the admiration of the country and gave the city an impetus in every branch ...
... started out 4,000 teamsters , with 3,000 wagons , and over 30,000 head of oxen . Their business was managed by Alexander Majors , Esq . , in a manner that gained the admiration of the country and gave the city an impetus in every branch ...
Σελίδα 39
... to take care of the military reservation and government pro- perty at old Fort Kearney , the fort having been moved to where it now is . Next morning after the arrangement I started for the purpose PIONEER REMINISCENCES . 39.
... to take care of the military reservation and government pro- perty at old Fort Kearney , the fort having been moved to where it now is . Next morning after the arrangement I started for the purpose PIONEER REMINISCENCES . 39.
Σελίδα 40
Nebraska State Historical Society. Next morning after the arrangement I started for the purpose of seeing Downs and getting his permission ; this was about the first of of February 1854. Not being very well posted in such matters I ...
Nebraska State Historical Society. Next morning after the arrangement I started for the purpose of seeing Downs and getting his permission ; this was about the first of of February 1854. Not being very well posted in such matters I ...
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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.