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-five : Compiled from the Most Authentic SourcesJ. R. Albach, 1847 - 591 страници History structured on a chronology table beginning in 1512 when Juan Ponce de León (1460?-1521) discovered Florida and continued with Spanish and French explorers of the Mississippi River and region and the development of Mid-West and its effects on relationships with Indians . |
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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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Страница 478 - The legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bonafide purchasers.
Страница 298 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Страница 298 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Страница 297 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Страница 297 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Страница 262 - Acts perfectly consistent not only with Justice and Equity but with that Spirit of Conciliation which on the return of the Blessings of Peace should universally prevail.
Страница 294 - Previous to the organization of the General Assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same...
Страница 293 - Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purpose of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Страница 296 - ART. 2. The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury ; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law. All persons shall be bailable, unless for capital offences, where the proof shall be evident, or the presumption great.
Страница 227 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...