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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... twenty years after the discovery of the Mississippi , some Catholic missionaries attempted to form settlements at St. Augustine and its vicinity ; and a few years later a colony of French Calvinists had been established on the St ...
... twenty years after the discovery of the Mississippi , some Catholic missionaries attempted to form settlements at St. Augustine and its vicinity ; and a few years later a colony of French Calvinists had been established on the St ...
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... twenty - one years of age , as commissioner , to remon- strate with the French commandant , who was at Fort le Bœuf , near the site of Erie , Penn . , against encroachments of the French . The English claimed the country by virtue of ...
... twenty - one years of age , as commissioner , to remon- strate with the French commandant , who was at Fort le Bœuf , near the site of Erie , Penn . , against encroachments of the French . The English claimed the country by virtue of ...
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... twenty - two Cherokee chiefs on an embassy of peace were made prisoners at Fort George , on the Savannah , that nation flew to arms , and for a while desolated the frontiers of Virginia and the Carolinas . Fort Lou- don , in East ...
... twenty - two Cherokee chiefs on an embassy of peace were made prisoners at Fort George , on the Savannah , that nation flew to arms , and for a while desolated the frontiers of Virginia and the Carolinas . Fort Lou- don , in East ...
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... twenty young persons , male and female , of the fort , had united in a fiax - pulling , in one of the most distant fields . In the course of the forenoon two of their mothers made them a visit , and the younger took along her child ...
... twenty young persons , male and female , of the fort , had united in a fiax - pulling , in one of the most distant fields . In the course of the forenoon two of their mothers made them a visit , and the younger took along her child ...
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... twenty steps of a towering sycamore , which looked like the patriarch of the woods among the small scrub oak , we beheld , crouched in a fork , a large panther , which , from appearances , was preparing to spring upon us . We had ran ...
... twenty steps of a towering sycamore , which looked like the patriarch of the woods among the small scrub oak , we beheld , crouched in a fork , a large panther , which , from appearances , was preparing to spring upon us . We had ran ...
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