The Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History -- Remarkable Individual Adventures --sketches of Frontier Life -- Descriptions of Natural Curiosities : to which is Appended Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah, California, Washington, Nebraska, Etc, Etc,G. F. Tuttle, 1858 - 576 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
American arms army arrived attack bank battle boat body Boone Boonesborough British cabin California camp canoes Captain Cherokees Clarke Colonel command commenced death Detroit early emigrants enemy escape expedition feet fell fifty fire forest Fort Duquesne Fremont French frontier fur trade garrison Governor head horses hostilities Hudson's Bay Company hundred miles hunting Illinois Illinois country Indians inhabitants Kaskaskia Kenton Kentucky killed Lake land Louisiana Mexicans Mexico Mississippi Missouri Mormons mouth murdered night Northwest Company officers Ohio Oregon Orleans party passed possession posts prairie prisoners region retreat returned rifle River Rocky Mountains Santa Fe savages scalp settlements settlers Shawanese shot side Sierra Nevada Simon Girty snow soon Spanish stream Tecumseh Territory thousand tion tomahawk took town trade treaty trees tribes troops United valley village Virginia warriors West western whole wilderness winter woods wounded
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Página 80 - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 516 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 515 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Página 268 - Father, you have got the arms and ammunition which our great father sent for his red children. If you have an idea of going away, give them to us, and you may go and welcome, for us. Our lives are in the hands of the Great Spirit. We are determined to defend our lands, and if it be his will, we wish to leave our bones upon them.
Página 368 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Página 80 - 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.
Página 514 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her...
Página 175 - From every account, the enemy amounted to two thousand combatants ; the troops actually engaged against them were short of nine hundred. This horde of savages, with their allies, abandoned themselves to flight, and dispersed with terror and dismay, leaving our victorious army in full and quiet possession of the field of battle, which terminated under the influence of the guns of the British garrison, as you will observe by the inclosed correspondence between Major Campbell, the commandant, and myself,...
Página 516 - ... There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 241 - ... -Although happy in having escaped from the Indians, his situation was still dreadful ; he was completely naked, under a burning sun; the soles of his feet were...