Historical Collections of the Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History--remarkable Individual Adventures--sketches of Frontier Life--descriptions of Natural Curiosities: to which is Appended Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah, California, Washington, Nebraska, Kansas, Etc., Etc, Bände 1-2G.F. Tuttle, 1857 |
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American appeared arms army arrived attack bank battle boat body Boone Boonesborough British cabin camp canoes Capt Cherokees Chillicothe Clarke command commenced companions death Detroit dians distance early emigrants enemy escaped expedition feet fell fifty fire forest Fort Duquesne France French frontier fur trade garrison Governor head horses hostilities Hudson's Bay Company hundred miles hunting Illinois Illinois country Indians Kaskaskia Kenton Kentucky killed Lake land Louisiana massacre Mexicans Mexico Mississippi Missouri Mormons morning mouth murdered night officers Ohio Orleans party passed possession posts prairie prisoners retreat returned rifle river Rocky Mountains Santa Fe savages scalped settlements settlers Shawanese shot side Simon Girty snow soon Spain Spanish stream Tecumseh territory thousand tomahawk took town trade treaty trees tribes troops United valley vicinity village Virginia warriors western whole wilderness winter woods wounded
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Seite 449 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 307 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Seite 206 - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent for the purposes of commerce.
Seite 79 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 230 - Father, listen to your children ! you have them now all before you. The war before this, our British father gave the hatchet to his red children, when our old chiefs were alive. They are now dead. In that war our father was thrown on his back by the Americans; and our father took them by the hand without onr knowledge ; and we are afraid that our father will do so again at this time.
Seite 278 - She told me that there was plenty of venison and jerked buffalo meat, and that on removing the ashes I should find a cake. But my watch had struck her fancy, and her curiosity had to be gratified by an immediate sight of it.
Seite 310 - As soon as I had gratified the first feelings of curiosity, I descended, and each man ascended in his turn ; for I would only allow one at a time to mount the unstable and precarious slab, which it seemed a breath would hurl into the abyss below.
Seite 457 - Territory, such officer shall be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred, or more than five hundred dollars.
Seite 176 - The conquest of Louisiana would be easy, if they only took the trouble to make a descent there. I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach.
Seite 55 - ... and also a great many scalps. Those that were coming in, and those that had arrived, kept a constant firing of small arms, and also the great guns in the fort, which were accompanied with the most hideous shouts and yells from all quarters ; so that it appeared to me as if the infernal regions had broke loose.