Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Том 3Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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... Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement Reuben Gold Thwaites. 1 Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Volume III • 1 H 1.
... Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement Reuben Gold Thwaites. 1 Early Western Travels 1748-1846 Volume III • 1 H 1.
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... Western settlers with regard to the free navigation of the Mississippi had reached an acute stage ; the French minister to the United States had come armed with instructions to secure the co - opera- 1 See documents in Original Journals ...
... Western settlers with regard to the free navigation of the Mississippi had reached an acute stage ; the French minister to the United States had come armed with instructions to secure the co - opera- 1 See documents in Original Journals ...
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... Western journeys had exhausted his resources ; for seven years he had had no remittance from the French government , and was now under the necessity of returning to Europe to attend to his affairs . Accordingly in 1796 he embarked for ...
... Western journeys had exhausted his resources ; for seven years he had had no remittance from the French government , and was now under the necessity of returning to Europe to attend to his affairs . Accordingly in 1796 he embarked for ...
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... Western settlements , and the Indian lands of the Illinois , Kentucky , and Tennessee we have selected for translation and inclusion within our series , the por- tions that concern particularly the trans - Allegheny region . These ...
... Western settlements , and the Indian lands of the Illinois , Kentucky , and Tennessee we have selected for translation and inclusion within our series , the por- tions that concern particularly the trans - Allegheny region . These ...
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... Western history consists in their accurate and succinct outline of the areas of colonization . The extent and boundaries of Michaux's travels enable us to map with considerable accuracy the limits of the settled regions first , that ...
... Western history consists in their accurate and succinct outline of the areas of colonization . The extent and boundaries of Michaux's travels enable us to map with considerable accuracy the limits of the settled regions first , that ...
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