Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of These Terretories : an Account of the Emigrant Aid Companies, and Directions to EmigrantsPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 256 Seiten |
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... wooden canoes ; we cannot write more till next year , if God does us the grace to lead us there . " Among these " prodigious nations " was the Kanzas . His expedition down the Mississippi did not take place so soon as he had hoped . But ...
... wooden canoes ; we cannot write more till next year , if God does us the grace to lead us there . " Among these " prodigious nations " was the Kanzas . His expedition down the Mississippi did not take place so soon as he had hoped . But ...
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... Woods , just north of the parallel of 49 ° . This name means " stone - boilers . " For this tribe , from want of better utensils , had formerly the habit of boiling their meat in holes made in the ground , lined with hide . The meat and ...
... Woods , just north of the parallel of 49 ° . This name means " stone - boilers . " For this tribe , from want of better utensils , had formerly the habit of boiling their meat in holes made in the ground , lined with hide . The meat and ...
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... wood and water , in cooking , dressing robes and other skins , drying meat and wild fruit , and raising Indian corn . The Mandans raise a great deal of corn , and some pump- kins and squashes . This is all done by the women , who make ...
... wood and water , in cooking , dressing robes and other skins , drying meat and wild fruit , and raising Indian corn . The Mandans raise a great deal of corn , and some pump- kins and squashes . This is all done by the women , who make ...
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... wood for useful purposes . The immediate shores of the river , however , abound in cotton - wood , which fills it with snags , sawyers and drift - wood ; and the bottoms of the tributary streams are , in general , well wooded .
... wood for useful purposes . The immediate shores of the river , however , abound in cotton - wood , which fills it with snags , sawyers and drift - wood ; and the bottoms of the tributary streams are , in general , well wooded .
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... wood of large size , and found ash of inferior size . On the tributaries of the Upper Missouri , above the Yel- lowstone , timber is more abundant , and will probably be found valuable for lumbering purposes . In his survey , last ...
... wood of large size , and found ash of inferior size . On the tributaries of the Upper Missouri , above the Yel- lowstone , timber is more abundant , and will probably be found valuable for lumbering purposes . In his survey , last ...
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