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 6
... wish- ing crowd , and , with two guides to lead them through the lakes and marshes of that region , started for the river , which , as they heard , rose but about three leagues distant , and fell into the Mississippi . Without ill ...
... wish- ing crowd , and , with two guides to lead them through the lakes and marshes of that region , started for the river , which , as they heard , rose but about three leagues distant , and fell into the Mississippi . Without ill ...
Page 21
... wish a seasoning ; but all these expectations were stopped , and hope turned into hate , by the express and emphatic statement on the part of La Salle , that no man under his command should be ducked , whereupon the commander of the ...
... wish a seasoning ; but all these expectations were stopped , and hope turned into hate , by the express and emphatic statement on the part of La Salle , that no man under his command should be ducked , whereupon the commander of the ...
Page 55
... wish you would build a fort at once at the Fork of the Ohio . " But this permission was not what the Virginians wanted ; so they took aside Montour , the interpreter , who was a son of the famous Catherine Montour , § and a chief among ...
... wish you would build a fort at once at the Fork of the Ohio . " But this permission was not what the Virginians wanted ; so they took aside Montour , the interpreter , who was a son of the famous Catherine Montour , § and a chief among ...
Page 84
... wish to get rich ; they have enough ; look ! we do not want to be rich , and take away what others have . " " The white people think we have no brains in our heads ; that they are big , and we a little handful ; but remember , when you ...
... wish to get rich ; they have enough ; look ! we do not want to be rich , and take away what others have . " " The white people think we have no brains in our heads ; that they are big , and we a little handful ; but remember , when you ...
Page 110
... wish to live at peace with them ; and said , that , as they had received nothing under the treaty of 1768 , it was intended to make them presents the next year . The Indians considered the talk of the Long Knife , and the next day ...
... wish to live at peace with them ; and said , that , as they had received nothing under the treaty of 1768 , it was intended to make them presents the next year . The Indians considered the talk of the Long Knife , and the next day ...
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