Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: Or, Life in the West. To which is Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the WestSegner & Condit, 1870 - 775 страница |
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... east of the Alleghany Mountains on the Atlantic coast , and South - east on the Gulf of Mexico . A history and description of the West , in this enlarged view , may almost be said to be a history and description of the American Union ...
... east of the Alleghany Mountains on the Atlantic coast , and South - east on the Gulf of Mexico . A history and description of the West , in this enlarged view , may almost be said to be a history and description of the American Union ...
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... east of and bordering on the Mississippi River , including , also , the States of Indiana and Mich- igan , and of the whole of our great national domain west of the Mis- sissippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean , with the exception ...
... east of and bordering on the Mississippi River , including , also , the States of Indiana and Mich- igan , and of the whole of our great national domain west of the Mis- sissippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean , with the exception ...
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... east of the mountains , were jealous of the rapidly increasing power of the French in the west . Not content with exciting the savages to hostilities against them , they stimulated private enterprise by granting six hundred thou- sand ...
... east of the mountains , were jealous of the rapidly increasing power of the French in the west . Not content with exciting the savages to hostilities against them , they stimulated private enterprise by granting six hundred thou- sand ...
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... East Tennessee , having been beseiged by the Indians , the garri- son capitulated on the 7th of August , and on the day afterwards , while on the route to Fort George , were attacked and the greater part massa- cred . In the summer of ...
... East Tennessee , having been beseiged by the Indians , the garri- son capitulated on the 7th of August , and on the day afterwards , while on the route to Fort George , were attacked and the greater part massa- cred . In the summer of ...
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... east and south of the Ohio , to an indefinite extent , and the spirit of emigration and speculation in land greatly increased . Among the land companies formed at this time was the " Mississippi Company , " of which George Washing- ton ...
... east and south of the Ohio , to an indefinite extent , and the spirit of emigration and speculation in land greatly increased . Among the land companies formed at this time was the " Mississippi Company , " of which George Washing- ton ...
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