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 Forty FiveJ.R. Albach, 1846 - 591 Seiten |
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... body was sunk in the stream of the Mississippi . Deprived of their energetic though ruthless leader , the Span- iards determined to try to reach Mexico by land . They turned West again therefore , and penetrated to the Red river ...
... body was sunk in the stream of the Mississippi . Deprived of their energetic though ruthless leader , the Span- iards determined to try to reach Mexico by land . They turned West again therefore , and penetrated to the Red river ...
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... body was liable to be exposed by a rise of water ; and would have been so , had not the river retired , and left the missionary's grave in peace . Charlevoix , who visited the spot some fifty years afterward , found that the waters had ...
... body was liable to be exposed by a rise of water ; and would have been so , had not the river retired , and left the missionary's grave in peace . Charlevoix , who visited the spot some fifty years afterward , found that the waters had ...
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... body at the head of the lake . From the 19th of September till the 1st of November , the time was consumed by La Salle in his voyage up the sea in question . On the day last named , he arrived at the mouth of the river of the Miamis ...
... body at the head of the lake . From the 19th of September till the 1st of November , the time was consumed by La Salle in his voyage up the sea in question . On the day last named , he arrived at the mouth of the river of the Miamis ...
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... body , meanwhile , had suffered greatly from the jealousy of the neighboring Indians , and the attacks of bands of Iroquois , who wandered all the way from their homes in New York , to annoy the less warlike savages of the prairies ...
... body , meanwhile , had suffered greatly from the jealousy of the neighboring Indians , and the attacks of bands of Iroquois , who wandered all the way from their homes in New York , to annoy the less warlike savages of the prairies ...
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... body , which made him surmount all difficulties , would have procured a glorious issue to his undertaking , had not all those excellent quali- ties been counterbalanced by too haughty a behavior , which some- times made him ...
... body , which made him surmount all difficulties , would have procured a glorious issue to his undertaking , had not all those excellent quali- ties been counterbalanced by too haughty a behavior , which some- times made him ...
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