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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... March , Pittsburgh incorporated . March , Dec. Dec. Dec. 11 , Holmes's expedition into Canada . J. C. Symmes died . Expedition under Croghan against Mackinac . Fort Shelby , at Prairie du Chien , taken by the British . Treaty with ...
... March , Pittsburgh incorporated . March , Dec. Dec. Dec. 11 , Holmes's expedition into Canada . J. C. Symmes died . Expedition under Croghan against Mackinac . Fort Shelby , at Prairie du Chien , taken by the British . Treaty with ...
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... march into the interior with a deter- mination to succeed . He had brought with him all things that it was supposed could be needful , and that none might be tempted to turn back , he sent away his vessels . From June till November , of ...
... march into the interior with a deter- mination to succeed . He had brought with him all things that it was supposed could be needful , and that none might be tempted to turn back , he sent away his vessels . From June till November , of ...
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... March , 1682 , discovered the three passages by which the Mississippi discharges its waters into the Gulf ; and here we shall let La Salle himself tell his story , as it is given in the " Proces - verbal " which Mr. Sparks has ...
... March , 1682 , discovered the three passages by which the Mississippi discharges its waters into the Gulf ; and here we shall let La Salle himself tell his story , as it is given in the " Proces - verbal " which Mr. Sparks has ...
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... March , 1685. Beaujeu , with his ship , is gone , leaving his comrades in the marshy wilderness , with not much of joy to look forward to . They had guns , and powder , and shot ; eight cannon , too , " but not one bullet , " that is ...
... March , 1685. Beaujeu , with his ship , is gone , leaving his comrades in the marshy wilderness , with not much of joy to look forward to . They had guns , and powder , and shot ; eight cannon , too , " but not one bullet , " that is ...
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... March he thought much might be done before autumn , and now autumn stands but one month removed from him , and not even a house built yet . And August soon passed too , not without results , however ; for the timber that had been buried ...
... March he thought much might be done before autumn , and now autumn stands but one month removed from him , and not even a house built yet . And August soon passed too , not without results , however ; for the timber that had been buried ...
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