Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which Have Occurred in the Western States and Territories, from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Five |
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... river , Lake Michigan . La Salle crosses to Kankakee . La Salle in Peoria Lake . Fort Crevecœur built . Hennepin ... river . La Hontan's travels to the " Long river . " Before this time Gravier , the founder of Kaskaskia , was among the ...
... river , Lake Michigan . La Salle crosses to Kankakee . La Salle in Peoria Lake . Fort Crevecœur built . Hennepin ... river . La Hontan's travels to the " Long river . " Before this time Gravier , the founder of Kaskaskia , was among the ...
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... river . Boone taken by Indians . Treaty of Lochaber . Ohio Company merged in Walpole Company . Washington visits the West . The Long Hunters explore the West . The Zanes found Wheeling . Moravians invited to Big Beaver . Captain Pittman ...
... river . Boone taken by Indians . Treaty of Lochaber . Ohio Company merged in Walpole Company . Washington visits the West . The Long Hunters explore the West . The Zanes found Wheeling . Moravians invited to Big Beaver . Captain Pittman ...
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... River of the West , not far from the 35th parallel of lati- tude . A month was spent in preparing barges to convey the horses , many of which still lived , across the rapid stream . Hav- ing successfully passed it , the explorers ...
... River of the West , not far from the 35th parallel of lati- tude . A month was spent in preparing barges to convey the horses , many of which still lived , across the rapid stream . Hav- ing successfully passed it , the explorers ...
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... river of the West , and fancied upon its fertile banks , not mighty cities , mines of gold , or fountains of youth- but whole tribes of God's children to whom the sound of the Gospel had never come . Filled with the wish to go and ...
... river of the West , and fancied upon its fertile banks , not mighty cities , mines of gold , or fountains of youth- but whole tribes of God's children to whom the sound of the Gospel had never come . Filled with the wish to go and ...
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... river , and toiling over stones which cut their feet , as they dragged their canoes through its strong rapids , reached a village where lived in union the Miamis , Mascoutens , ‡ and " Kikabeux " ( Kickapoos . ) Here Allouez had ...
... river , and toiling over stones which cut their feet , as they dragged their canoes through its strong rapids , reached a village where lived in union the Miamis , Mascoutens , ‡ and " Kikabeux " ( Kickapoos . ) Here Allouez had ...
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