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... Platte and the Arkansas rivers , by means of rowboats , saddle horses and pack mules . The progressive advance , from 1819 , of steamboats up the Missouri ; the movement at the same time for military protection of the Upper Missouri ...
... Platte and the Arkansas rivers , by means of rowboats , saddle horses and pack mules . The progressive advance , from 1819 , of steamboats up the Missouri ; the movement at the same time for military protection of the Upper Missouri ...
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... Platte , was sent on a mission to the Blackfoot Indians and on the journey discovered Yellowstone Park . The Ave Marie River mentioned is now called Marias Creek . It joins the Osage about three miles above its mouth . arations , and ...
... Platte , was sent on a mission to the Blackfoot Indians and on the journey discovered Yellowstone Park . The Ave Marie River mentioned is now called Marias Creek . It joins the Osage about three miles above its mouth . arations , and ...
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... Platte , below the mouth of Wolf river . There is the great Pawnie village , and some distance above it , a vil- lage of Ottos , and the remains of the Missouris who have united themselves to that nation . The Loups reside in a village ...
... Platte , below the mouth of Wolf river . There is the great Pawnie village , and some distance above it , a vil- lage of Ottos , and the remains of the Missouris who have united themselves to that nation . The Loups reside in a village ...
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... in a beautiful level prairie on the north bank of the Wolf branch of the Platte , about an hundred miles above its mouth . It contains at pres- ent but 170 houses which are built in a conical 6 NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
... in a beautiful level prairie on the north bank of the Wolf branch of the Platte , about an hundred miles above its mouth . It contains at pres- ent but 170 houses which are built in a conical 6 NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Σελίδα 28
... Platte , which connects with the Missouri " about sixty miles below the Council Bluffs ... Its name , in fact , being derived from the French , implies flatness or a very even and extended surface . " Not being navigable , less is known ...
... Platte , which connects with the Missouri " about sixty miles below the Council Bluffs ... Its name , in fact , being derived from the French , implies flatness or a very even and extended surface . " Not being navigable , less is known ...
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Σελίδα 17 - The said nations of Indians acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of the United States, and no other power, and will prove by their conduct that they are worthy of so great a blessing.
Σελίδα 13 - Congress of the daring and distinguished valour displayed by himself and the regiment of volunteers under his command, in charging, and essentially contributing to vanquish, the combined British and Indian forces...
Σελίδα 336 - The bow of the vessel exhibits a huge serpent, black and scaly, rising out of the water from under the boat, his head as high as the deck, darted forward, his mouth open, vomiting smoke, and apparently carrying the boat on his back. From under the boat, at its stern, issues a stream of foaming water, dashing violently along. All the machinery is hid.
Σελίδα 302 - Lecompton monstrosity solely on the ground that it was a violation of the fundamental principles of free government; on the ground that it was not the act and deed of the people of Kansas ; that it did not embody their will ; that they were averse to it ; and hence I denied the right of Congress to force it upon them, either as a free State .or a slave State.
Σελίδα 325 - City route of $0.67 per 100 pounds. There are two reasons, however, why this advantage is practically not now attainable: first, the neighborhood of Fort Randall, as a depot for supplies, men, and animals, is not to be compared with Nebraska City, the former being in a comparatively barren country destitute of inhabitants, and where the necessary store-houses can only be constructed at an expense not less than $100,000 ; second, the great difficulties of the route from Fort Randall west. That it...
Σελίδα 209 - Louis in the middle, the national metropolis and great commercial emporium at the other; and which shall be adorned with its crowning honor — the colossal statue of the great Columbus — whose design it accomplishes, hewn from a granite mass of a peak of the Rocky Mountains, overlooking the road — the mountain itself...
Σελίδα 54 - From this cave about 400,000 pounds of lead ore have been taken, with little labor, and the operation was still continued. The land is of the best quality, and covered with timber. A town called Van Buren (which name has also been given to the mines and cave adjacent, has been laid out, and that part of the country is rapidly increasing in population".
Σελίδα 108 - I believe now as I did then, with the patriarchs of the Jeffersonian school, that the seeds of monarchy were indeed sown in the fertile soil of our Federal Constitution; and that though for nearly fifty years they lay dormant, they at last sprouted and shot forth into strong and thriving plants, bearing blossoms and producing ripe fruit This Government is now a practical monarchy...
Σελίδα 336 - The position at the Council Bluff is a very important one, and the post will consequently be rendered strong, and will be occupied by a sufficient garrison. It is about half way between St. Louis and the Mandan village, and is at that point on the Missouri, which approaches the nearest to the post at the mouth of the St. Peter's, with which, in the event of hostilities, it may cooperate. It is besides not...
Σελίδα 348 - The bow of this vessel exhibits the form of a huge serpent, black and scaly, rising out of the water from under the boat, his head as high as the deck, darted forward, his mouth open, vomiting smoke, and apparently carrying the boat on his back.