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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... latter's death was com- missioned by the French minister of the interior to pro- ceed to the United States to study forests and agricul- ture in general . The journal of his travels was not originally intended for print ; but the ...
... latter's death was com- missioned by the French minister of the interior to pro- ceed to the United States to study forests and agricul- ture in general . The journal of his travels was not originally intended for print ; but the ...
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... latter's death . " The few years that intervened between the journeys of the elder and younger Michaux show the rapidity with which the West was changing . Conditions of travel had meantime been improved , and the development of re ...
... latter's death . " The few years that intervened between the journeys of the elder and younger Michaux show the rapidity with which the West was changing . Conditions of travel had meantime been improved , and the development of re ...
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... latter's Illinois campaigns . Vigo took the oath of allegiance to the United States , and later settled at Vincennes , where he died in poverty in 1836. His just claims upon the government were not settled until thirty years after his ...
... latter's Illinois campaigns . Vigo took the oath of allegiance to the United States , and later settled at Vincennes , where he died in poverty in 1836. His just claims upon the government were not settled until thirty years after his ...
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... latter would , in consequence of what I should communicate to him , make arrangements for further conferences together " etc. etc. The 12th returned to Danville . The 13th Visited ( his Excellency ) the Governor of the State of ...
... latter would , in consequence of what I should communicate to him , make arrangements for further conferences together " etc. etc. The 12th returned to Danville . The 13th Visited ( his Excellency ) the Governor of the State of ...
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... latter would have the right to repel Constraint and force by force . 47 The original letter sent by this messenger is in the Wisconsin Historical Library ( Draper MSS . , 55 J 5 ) , and is printed in American Historical Associa- tion ...
... latter would have the right to repel Constraint and force by force . 47 The original letter sent by this messenger is in the Wisconsin Historical Library ( Draper MSS . , 55 J 5 ) , and is printed in American Historical Associa- tion ...
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Страница 335 - Tour (1803) describes them as "square, and flatbottomed ; about forty feet by fifteen, with sides six feet deep ; covered with a roof of thin boards, and accomodated with a fire-place. They will hold from 200 to 500 barrels of flour. They require but four hands to navigate them ; carry no sail, and are wafted down by the current.
Страница 159 - Although the passage from New Orleans to one of these two ports is twenty or thirty days, and that they have to take a route by land of three hundred miles to return to Pittsburgh, they prefer this way, being not so difficult as the return by land from New Orleans to Pittsburgh, this last distance being fourteen or fifteen hundred miles. However, when the barges are only destined for Limeston, in Kentucky, or for Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, the bargemen return by land, and by that means take...
Страница 295 - It is built about two hundred fathoms from the Catabaw River, upon an uniform spot of ground. The number of its houses does not exceed two hundred; they are almost all built of wood, and painted grey and yellow; and although there are very few of them more than two stories high, they have a very respectable appearance. The legislature, formed by the union of the delegates of different counties that send them in a number proportionate to their population, meet there annually on the first of December,...
Страница 246 - Whenever they are surprised, or attacked by a dog or any other animal, they either [192] make their escape, or flock together in the form of a circle to defend themselves. They are of a bulky shape, middling size, and straight eared. Every inhabitant recognizes those that belong to him by the particular manner in which their ears are cut. They stray sometimes in the forests, and do not make their appearance again for several months; they accustom them, notwithstanding, to return every now and then...
Страница 247 - With them the passion for gaming and spirituous liquors is carried to excess, which frequently terminates in quarrels degrading to human nature. The public houses are always crowded, more especially during the sittings of the courts of justice. Horses and lawsuits comprise the usual topic of their conversation. If a traveler happens to pass by, his horse is appreciated; if he stops, he is presented with a glass of whiskey...