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 Fifty-sixW.S. Haven, 1858 - 1016 páginas |
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... town plat surveyed . Col. Hamtramck died at Detroit . D. Goforth discovered mammoth skeleton at Big Bone Lick , Ky . 1804. Fort Dearborn built at Chicago . Territory of Orleans and district of Upper Louisiana organized . Lewis and Clark ...
... town plat surveyed . Col. Hamtramck died at Detroit . D. Goforth discovered mammoth skeleton at Big Bone Lick , Ky . 1804. Fort Dearborn built at Chicago . Territory of Orleans and district of Upper Louisiana organized . Lewis and Clark ...
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... town , Mauvile , now Mobile . Here many thousand Indians assembled to rescue their chief , and expel the invaders . The Spaniards were suddenly attacked with great fury ; the battle lasted all day ; the town was burned , eighty - three ...
... town , Mauvile , now Mobile . Here many thousand Indians assembled to rescue their chief , and expel the invaders . The Spaniards were suddenly attacked with great fury ; the battle lasted all day ; the town was burned , eighty - three ...
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... town , ( where we intended to quit the path and steer across the country for Shanapin's town , ) we fell in with a party of French Indians , who had laid in wait for us . One of them fired at Mr. Gist , or me , not fifteeen steps off ...
... town , ( where we intended to quit the path and steer across the country for Shanapin's town , ) we fell in with a party of French Indians , who had laid in wait for us . One of them fired at Mr. Gist , or me , not fifteeen steps off ...
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... town , either to perceive the situation of it , the number of the enemy , or what way it might be most advan- tageously attacked . " We continued our march , intending to get as near the town as possible that night , so as to be able to ...
... town , either to perceive the situation of it , the number of the enemy , or what way it might be most advan- tageously attacked . " We continued our march , intending to get as near the town as possible that night , so as to be able to ...
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... town , a little before the setting of the moon , to which place , rather than by pilots , we were guided by the beating of the drum , and the whoop- ing of the warriors , at their dances . " It then became us to make the best use of the ...
... town , a little before the setting of the moon , to which place , rather than by pilots , we were guided by the beating of the drum , and the whoop- ing of the warriors , at their dances . " It then became us to make the best use of the ...
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