The Cincinnati Miscellany, Or, Antiquities of the West, and Pioneer History and General and Local Statistics: From April 1st, 1845 to April 1st, 1846C. Clark, printer, 1846 - Cincinnati (Ohio) |
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... North Bend . The Judge has been a resident of Hamilton county for fifty - four years , and an accurate and intelligent observer of cotemporary events , as well as a sharer in the toils , privations and dangers of western pioneer life ...
... North Bend . The Judge has been a resident of Hamilton county for fifty - four years , and an accurate and intelligent observer of cotemporary events , as well as a sharer in the toils , privations and dangers of western pioneer life ...
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... North Bend , June 16th , 1845 . J. MATSON . Infirmity of Purpose . Cruel as the spectacle may appear , yet one may derive a moral lesson even at a Spanish Bull Fight . The Plasa de Toros , with its fierce encounters and ghastly wounds ...
... North Bend , June 16th , 1845 . J. MATSON . Infirmity of Purpose . Cruel as the spectacle may appear , yet one may derive a moral lesson even at a Spanish Bull Fight . The Plasa de Toros , with its fierce encounters and ghastly wounds ...
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... North Bend , are both now rather in disgrace . We have been led to believe that this place would have been made the grand deposit until this day ; we now learn that there will be a for- ward move in the course of ten days , nine miles ...
... North Bend , are both now rather in disgrace . We have been led to believe that this place would have been made the grand deposit until this day ; we now learn that there will be a for- ward move in the course of ten days , nine miles ...
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... NORTH BEND , July 12th , 1845 . Your friend John Hindman is in er- ror , alleging that Tanner's Creek , Indiana , deri- ved its name from young Tanner being killed by the Indians on its waters . Tanner was not killed at all , although ...
... NORTH BEND , July 12th , 1845 . Your friend John Hindman is in er- ror , alleging that Tanner's Creek , Indiana , deri- ved its name from young Tanner being killed by the Indians on its waters . Tanner was not killed at all , although ...
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... North Bend . but Miller objected , saying he was his captive In the month of August , 1791 , a man named He was taken to one of the Indian towns , where Fuller , with his son William , a lad of 16 years he remained until ... North Bend. ...
... North Bend . but Miller objected , saying he was his captive In the month of August , 1791 , a man named He was taken to one of the Indian towns , where Fuller , with his son William , a lad of 16 years he remained until ... North Bend. ...
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Page 307 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 80 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 233 - In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said vessel hath affirmed to C. D bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; one of which being accomplished, the others to stand void.
Page 102 - Lieutenant and you are your self to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from time to time receive from Me or...
Page 7 - Here they lay from midnight till morning. At daylight they resumed the pursuit, and about sunrise discovered the horses; and immediately dismounting and tying up their own, they crept cautiously to a rising ground which intervened, from the crest of which they perceived the encampment of four lodges close by. They proceeded quietly and had got within thirty or forty yards of their object, when a movement among the horses discovered them to the Indians.
Page 8 - An old squaw, possibly his mother, stopped and looked back from the mountain side she was climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated the agonies of the gory savage. They were now masters of the camp. which was a pretty little recess in the mountain, with a fine spring, and apparently safe from all invasion. Great preparations had been made to feast a large party, for it was a very...
Page 70 - And, half suspected, animate the whole; Of mordant mustard add a single spoon, Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault...
Page 105 - The world is full of poetry — the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies, And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled And mantled with its beauty ; and the walls That close the universe with crystal in, Are eloquent with voices that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn. Unfading beauty and unyielding power.
Page 8 - ... he was not to be killed, but only tied as a prisoner. Their object accomplished, our men gathered up all the surviving horses, fifteen in number. returned upon their trail, and rejoined us at our camp in the afternoon of the same day. They had rode about one hundred miles in the pursuit and return, and all in thirty hours.
Page 270 - Again an unknown agent had interposed in their behalf. This second sacrifice cast dismay into the ranks of the assailants, and just as the sun was disappearing behind the western hills the foe withdrew for a short distance, to devise some new mode of attack.