Upper Mississippi: Or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-builders, the Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the North-west; from A.D. 1600 to the Present TimeClarke, 1867 - 460 sidor |
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Sida 43
... Detroit , Miamies of the Wabash , Sacs and Foxes and Pottowatomies of Saginaw bay and Lake Michigan , Chippeways of the Falls of St. Mary , and Chris- tinaux of Hudson's bay . When the navigator , Samuel Champlain , founded Quebec in ...
... Detroit , Miamies of the Wabash , Sacs and Foxes and Pottowatomies of Saginaw bay and Lake Michigan , Chippeways of the Falls of St. Mary , and Chris- tinaux of Hudson's bay . When the navigator , Samuel Champlain , founded Quebec in ...
Sida 57
... Detroit , in 1712 . The great power of the Iroquois , backed and armed as they were by the Dutch and English , finally induced the French to try diplomacy instead of war with the confede- rates , and in 1700 they effected a treaty ...
... Detroit , in 1712 . The great power of the Iroquois , backed and armed as they were by the Dutch and English , finally induced the French to try diplomacy instead of war with the confede- rates , and in 1700 they effected a treaty ...
Sida 58
... Detroit , and the following year Major McGregor organized a party of sixty young men of Albany and several Mohegan Indians , and with thirty - two canoes , and merchandise for the Indian trade , started for Detroit ; but they were met ...
... Detroit , and the following year Major McGregor organized a party of sixty young men of Albany and several Mohegan Indians , and with thirty - two canoes , and merchandise for the Indian trade , started for Detroit ; but they were met ...
Sida 61
... Detroit , where they have killed or taken prisoners nearly a thousand of both sexes . " The Governor of Canada , it will be observed , is extremely careful not to intimate that the French had any hand in the massacre at Detroit ; and ...
... Detroit , where they have killed or taken prisoners nearly a thousand of both sexes . " The Governor of Canada , it will be observed , is extremely careful not to intimate that the French had any hand in the massacre at Detroit ; and ...
Sida 62
... Detroit ; whereupon the bands of Pemoussa and Lamina , of Mascotens and Foxes , including women and children , numbering nearly 1,000 , retreated to Detroit , and pitched their camp within fifty paces of Fort Pontchartrain . This so ...
... Detroit ; whereupon the bands of Pemoussa and Lamina , of Mascotens and Foxes , including women and children , numbering nearly 1,000 , retreated to Detroit , and pitched their camp within fifty paces of Fort Pontchartrain . This so ...
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Upper Mississippi, Or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-builders, the Indian ... George Gale Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1867 |
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acres Algonquin allies Allouez annually annuity Arkansas river attacked August bands Black Hawk boundary line bushels called Canada canoes Captain ceded chiefs Chippeways civilization commandant commenced confederacy Congress creek Crow Dakota Delawares Detroit English Erie established fall Father feet fifty Fox river French Governor of Canada Green Bay hundred Illinois Iowa Iroquois Jesuit July June Kansas Kaskaskia Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior land Louis Mackinaw Marquette Mascotens Menominies Miamies Michigan miles Milwaukee Minnesota mission missionaries Mississippi Missouri river Mound-Builders mounds mouth nations navigation nearly north-west north-western October Ohio river Omahas Osages Ottawas party peace place of beginning Potowatomies Prairie Du Chien President prisoners probably railroad reservation returned Sacs and Foxes Salle sent Shawnees Sieur Sioux surrender territory thence tion tract trade treaty tribe troops United upper valley village visited warriors western Winnebagoes Wisconsin river
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Sida 93 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace : but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Sida 437 - Illinois for the construction of a railroad from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to a point at or near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with a branch of the same to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, and another via the town of Galena in said state, to Dubuque in the state of Iowa...
Sida 377 - State, of the five per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands within the...
Sida 411 - 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.
Sida 92 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Sida 444 - And said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out. locate. construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph...
Sida 103 - ... the south, lake St. Clair on the north, and a line, the general course whereof shall be six miles distant from the west end of lake Erie and Detroit river.
Sida 383 - State to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States an authentic copy of said act; upon receipt whereof the President, by proclamation shall forthwith announce the fact, whereupon, said fundamental condition shall be held as a part of the organic law of the State, and thereupon, and without any further proceedings on the part of Congress, the admission of said State into the Union shall be considered as complete.
Sida 294 - River ; thence in a direct line to the lower fork of the Calumet River, and down that river to its junction with the Missouri River.
Sida 104 - The post of Michilimackinac, and all the land on the island on which that post stands, and the main land adjacent, of which the Indian title has been extinguished by gifts or grants to the French or English governments ; and a piece of land on the main to the north of the island, to measure six miles, on lake Huron, or the strait between lakes Huron and Michigan, and to extend three miles back from the water of the lake or strait ; and also, the Island De Bois Blanc, being an extra and voluntary...