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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... sent us , with a request to publish . The incident is one of those which gave such wild interest to the homeward journey of Lieut . Fremont . - EDS . ] While encamped on the 24th of April , at a spring near the Spanish Trail , we were ...
... sent us , with a request to publish . The incident is one of those which gave such wild interest to the homeward journey of Lieut . Fremont . - EDS . ] While encamped on the 24th of April , at a spring near the Spanish Trail , we were ...
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... sent by Cæsar to the Horse Guards at Rome , containing the three memorable words , " Veni , vidi , vici , " and perhaps until our own day , no like instance of brevity has been found . The despatch of Sir Charles Napier , after the ...
... sent by Cæsar to the Horse Guards at Rome , containing the three memorable words , " Veni , vidi , vici , " and perhaps until our own day , no like instance of brevity has been found . The despatch of Sir Charles Napier , after the ...
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... sent forward to Major Strong , and with the remaining six I commenced work on Monday , and have already cured five cocks of hay , which in my opinion , is little inferior to timothy . It is so warm on the Prairie that it is cut , cured ...
... sent forward to Major Strong , and with the remaining six I commenced work on Monday , and have already cured five cocks of hay , which in my opinion , is little inferior to timothy . It is so warm on the Prairie that it is cut , cured ...
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... sent from St. Lou- is to the eastern cities , sawed into veneers , and This article has been extensively imported sent back and sold in that shape for 12 cents from the Atlantic cities heretofore , for our mar- per superficial foot ...
... sent from St. Lou- is to the eastern cities , sawed into veneers , and This article has been extensively imported sent back and sold in that shape for 12 cents from the Atlantic cities heretofore , for our mar- per superficial foot ...
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... sent on the within to Urbana . Pioneer Libraries . The records of the past in the great west are Arsenal - if better than the old ones take them -- always interesting waymarks of its progress .-- get the best you can . Address me at ...
... sent on the within to Urbana . Pioneer Libraries . The records of the past in the great west are Arsenal - if better than the old ones take them -- always interesting waymarks of its progress .-- get the best you can . Address me at ...
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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.