Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: Or, Life in the West. To which is Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the WestStegner & Condit, 1867 - 763 pages |
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... half - breed hunter in the person of Baptiste l'Esprit . Passing now to the Pacific coast , we look in upon " California and its Mines , " and have a brief history of the country , beginning with the planting of Spanish colonies upon ...
... half - breed hunter in the person of Baptiste l'Esprit . Passing now to the Pacific coast , we look in upon " California and its Mines , " and have a brief history of the country , beginning with the planting of Spanish colonies upon ...
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... half of the present limits of Ohio . In November , 1788 , the second settlement within the limits of Ohio was commenced at Columbia , on the Ohio , five miles above the site of Cincinnati , and within the purchase and under the auspices ...
... half of the present limits of Ohio . In November , 1788 , the second settlement within the limits of Ohio was commenced at Columbia , on the Ohio , five miles above the site of Cincinnati , and within the purchase and under the auspices ...
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... half acres named in this contract , were diminished to something over eleven hundred thousand ; the rise in continental certifi cates having prevented the Company from securing the sum they had expected . In consequence of this non ...
... half acres named in this contract , were diminished to something over eleven hundred thousand ; the rise in continental certifi cates having prevented the Company from securing the sum they had expected . In consequence of this non ...
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... half along the Ohio , of which he offered the alternate lots to settlers , of whom forty came within two months , and built themselves " comfortable log - cabins . " But his longing for a city still continued , and after much ...
... half along the Ohio , of which he offered the alternate lots to settlers , of whom forty came within two months , and built themselves " comfortable log - cabins . " But his longing for a city still continued , and after much ...
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... half , and its completion gave his hopes almost a death - blow . So uniformly unfortu nate was this founder of the most thriving colony of Ohio , that warfare and peace , prosperity and adversity , seemed equally to injure his inter ...
... half , and its completion gave his hopes almost a death - blow . So uniformly unfortu nate was this founder of the most thriving colony of Ohio , that warfare and peace , prosperity and adversity , seemed equally to injure his inter ...
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