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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Page 28
... English , and Tonti , with his western wild allies , was forced to march and fight . Engaged in this business , he appears to us at intervals in the pages of Charlevoix ; in the fall of 1687 we have him with Joutel , at Fort St. Louis ...
... English , and Tonti , with his western wild allies , was forced to march and fight . Engaged in this business , he appears to us at intervals in the pages of Charlevoix ; in the fall of 1687 we have him with Joutel , at Fort St. Louis ...
Page 31
... English fort which they were besieging ; - and there the commander stands on the icy deck , the cold October wind singing in the shrouds , and his dead brother waiting till their lives are secured before he can receive Christian burial ...
... English fort which they were besieging ; - and there the commander stands on the icy deck , the cold October wind singing in the shrouds , and his dead brother waiting till their lives are secured before he can receive Christian burial ...
Page 32
... English claim the Mississippi . 1700 . Slowly ascending the vast stream , he found himself puzzled by the little resemblance which it bore to that described by Tonti and by Hennepin . So great were the discrepancies , that he had begun ...
... English claim the Mississippi . 1700 . Slowly ascending the vast stream , he found himself puzzled by the little resemblance which it bore to that described by Tonti and by Hennepin . So great were the discrepancies , that he had begun ...
Page 36
... English , who , from an early period , had opened commercial relations with the Chickasaws , through them constantly interfered with the trade of the Mississippi . Along the coast , from Pensacola to the Rio del Norte , Spain disputed ...
... English , who , from an early period , had opened commercial relations with the Chickasaws , through them constantly interfered with the trade of the Mississippi . Along the coast , from Pensacola to the Rio del Norte , Spain disputed ...
Page 37
... English , constantly inter- fered with the trade of the Mississippi . For this purpose the forces of New France , from New Orleans to Detroit , were ordered to meet in the country of the inimical Indians , upon the 10th of May , 1736 ...
... English , constantly inter- fered with the trade of the Mississippi . For this purpose the forces of New France , from New Orleans to Detroit , were ordered to meet in the country of the inimical Indians , upon the 10th of May , 1736 ...
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