Pioneer Women of the WestC. Scribner, 1852 - 434 страници |
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... never again live in this country . The progress of im- provement , art , and luxury , has a tendency to change the female character , so that even a return of the perils of war , or the neces- sity for exertion , would hardly develop in ...
... never again live in this country . The progress of im- provement , art , and luxury , has a tendency to change the female character , so that even a return of the perils of war , or the neces- sity for exertion , would hardly develop in ...
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... never been recorded in any published work . It is full of per- sonal adventure , and no power of imagination could create materials more replete with romantic interest than their simple experience afforded . The training of those hardy ...
... never been recorded in any published work . It is full of per- sonal adventure , and no power of imagination could create materials more replete with romantic interest than their simple experience afforded . The training of those hardy ...
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... never hesitated to expose herself to danger whenever she thought it her duty to brave it ; and when Indian hostilities were most fierce , when their homes were frequently invaded by the murderous savage , and females struck down by the ...
... never hesitated to expose herself to danger whenever she thought it her duty to brave it ; and when Indian hostilities were most fierce , when their homes were frequently invaded by the murderous savage , and females struck down by the ...
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... sons and relatives- will never be forgotten while the apprehension of what is noble , generous , and good survives in the hearts of their countrymen . II . CATHARINE SEVIER . In one of the pioneer 28 PIONEER WOMEN OF THE WEST .
... sons and relatives- will never be forgotten while the apprehension of what is noble , generous , and good survives in the hearts of their countrymen . II . CATHARINE SEVIER . In one of the pioneer 28 PIONEER WOMEN OF THE WEST .
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... articles . She usually remained at the farm , and never would consent to be shut up in a blockhouse , always saying— " The wife of John Sevier Knows no fear . " We have seen her " I neither skulk from duty 34 PIONEER WOMEN OF THE WEST .
... articles . She usually remained at the farm , and never would consent to be shut up in a blockhouse , always saying— " The wife of John Sevier Knows no fear . " We have seen her " I neither skulk from duty 34 PIONEER WOMEN OF THE WEST .
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afterwards alarm Anthony Bledsoe arrived battle of Tippecanoe Black Partridge Bledsoe blockhouse boat Boone brother brought Brown Buffalo cabin called canoe Capt captivity Carolina Cherokees chief commanding commenced Creek Cumberland danger daughter death Detroit distance door early emigrants enemy father fire forest Fort Snelling friends garrison Heald heard horse Hunt hunter husband Indians James Haynes John Sevier journey Kentucky killed lady lake land lived Marietta married Michigan miles morning mother mountains mouth neighbors Nickajack night North Carolina officers Ohio party passed pioneer Prairie du Chien prisoners reached residence rifle river savages sent settlement settlers Sevier side sister Snelling soldiers soon spring station suffered Sumner County Tennessee tomahawk took town trader tree troops valley warrior wife wild wild turkeys wilderness winter woman women woods wounded young Ypsilanti
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Страница 164 - Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Страница 129 - ... across the way. Sometimes an ambuscade was formed by the way-side, and an unexpected discharge of several guns took place, so as to cover the wedding company with smoke. ." Let the reader imagine the scene which followed this discharge: the sudden...
Страница 277 - Caldwell* for it was he, entered the parlor with a calm step, and without a trace of agitation in his manner. He deliberately took off his accoutrements and placed them with his rifle behind the door, then saluted the hostile savages. "How now, my friends! A good-day to you.
Страница 127 - These last were very cold and uncomfortable in wet weather. The shirt and jacket were of the common fashion. A pair of drawers or breeches and leggins, were the dress of the thighs and legs, a pair of moccasins answered for the feet much better than shoes. These were made of dressed deer skin.
Страница 269 - I come to deliver up to you the medal I wear. It was given me by the Americans, and I have long worn it in token of our mutual friendship. But our young men are resolved to imbrue their hands in the blood of the whites. I cannot restrain them, and I will not wear a token of peace while I am compelled to act as an enemy.
Страница 182 - Having arrived at Upper Sandusky, they built small huts of logs and bark to screen them from the cold, having neither beds nor blankets, and being reduced to the greatest poverty and want; for the savages had by degrees stolen almost every thing, both from the missionaries and Indians, on the journey.
Страница 126 - The blockhouses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins and stockades. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in...
Страница 313 - Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall, each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature here, Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter...
Страница 132 - ... reach of the rifle.' The bleating of the fawn brought its dam to her death in the same way. The hunter often collected a company of mopish owls to the trees about his camp, and amused himself with their hoarse screaming ; his howl would raise and obtain responses from a pack of wolves, so as to inform him of their neighborhood, as well as guard him against their depredations.
Страница 277 - let them put an end to my misery at once." Mrs. Bisson replied, " Your death would be the destruction of us all, for Black Partridge has resolved that if one drop of the blood of your family is spilled, he will take the lives of all concerned in it, even his nearest friends; and if once the work of murder commences, there will be no end of it, so long as there remains one white person or half-breed in the country.