Marcus Whitman and the Early Days of OregonSilver, Burdett, 1901 - 341 páginas |
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American Board arrived Astoria Captain captives cattle Cayuse chief church claim Columbia River Congress crossed CUSHING EELLS Dalles DAVID GREENE dear death Doctor emigrants Father Eells Flathead Fort Hall Fort Vancouver Fort Walla Walla forty-ninth parallel friends give Gray H. H. SPALDING Hall hand History of Oregon horses Hudson's Bay Company hundred immigration Indians journey Kansas River Kayuse killed labors land letter Louis Marcus Whitman massacre miles Miss missionaries Missouri morning murdered Nez Perces night Ogden Oregon country Oregon mission Pacific party passed Percés persons Platte posts present President priests reached received ride Rocky Mountains Rogers route Sager savages says Secretary sent settlement settlers sick soon Spalding station superintendent supplies Territory tion told took traveled treaty tribes United valley Vancouver wagons Waiilatpu Walla Walla Washington wife Willamette winter women young
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Página 35 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 3 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other power or state to any part of the said country, the only object of the high contracting parties in that respect being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.
Página 330 - Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Página 3 - ... years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim, which either of the two high contracting parties may have 'to any part of the said country...
Página 19 - All territory, places and possessions whatsoever taken by either party from the other during the War, or which may be taken after the signing of this Treaty excepting only the Islands hereinafter mentioned shall be restored without delay...
Página 3 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Página 25 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Página 330 - God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Página 52 - There would be no difficulty in the way of constructing a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean...
Página 281 - And be it further enacted, that the said superintendents shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...