Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 28
... streams skirted with timber , the undulating prairies dotted all over with choice flowers , and comparing all with the country surrounding Omaha , we concluded to make this our future home . Accordingly , on the first of August I ...
... streams skirted with timber , the undulating prairies dotted all over with choice flowers , and comparing all with the country surrounding Omaha , we concluded to make this our future home . Accordingly , on the first of August I ...
Σελίδα 48
... stream “ E - ro - ma - ha , ” contracted into " O - ma - ha , " which means " above , " with reference to a stream , or “ above , on a stream . " To understand the word , I must add that they have three words translated " above ...
... stream “ E - ro - ma - ha , ” contracted into " O - ma - ha , " which means " above , " with reference to a stream , or “ above , on a stream . " To understand the word , I must add that they have three words translated " above ...
Σελίδα 50
... stream of melted snow water to obtain an entrance . We will try again . The boys in the neighborhood who were inside last summer think they passed about forty feet , when they found a depression in the floor , probably a magazine or ...
... stream of melted snow water to obtain an entrance . We will try again . The boys in the neighborhood who were inside last summer think they passed about forty feet , when they found a depression in the floor , probably a magazine or ...
Σελίδα 53
... stream was not larger than a man's thigh . This then is the hundreds of acres of large cottonwoods cut by the settlers during the past twenty - five years . The channel of the river would have been about seven - eighths of a mile from ...
... stream was not larger than a man's thigh . This then is the hundreds of acres of large cottonwoods cut by the settlers during the past twenty - five years . The channel of the river would have been about seven - eighths of a mile from ...
Σελίδα 63
... stream , and I spent most of the night in cutting wood , having an axe in my saddlebags , in which I fixed a temporary handle . The next morning we started breakfast- less , and reached Wolf creek about eleven o'clock . The water at the ...
... stream , and I spent most of the night in cutting wood , having an axe in my saddlebags , in which I fixed a temporary handle . The next morning we started breakfast- less , and reached Wolf creek about eleven o'clock . The water at the ...
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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.