Kanzas and Nebraska: The History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of These Terretories : an Account of the Emigrant Aid Companies, and Directions to Emigrants |
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... feet , Mandans , Sioux , Crows , Puncas , Omahas , Ottoes , Pawnees , Kan- zas , Osages — The past condition and present prospects of the race ,. 17 CHAPTER III . NEBRASKA . Rivers - Valleys - Soil and face of the country , CHAPTER IV ...
... feet , Mandans , Sioux , Crows , Puncas , Omahas , Ottoes , Pawnees , Kan- zas , Osages — The past condition and present prospects of the race ,. 17 CHAPTER III . NEBRASKA . Rivers - Valleys - Soil and face of the country , CHAPTER IV ...
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... feet , Mandans , Sioux , Crows , Puncas , Omahas , Ottoes , Pawnees , Kan- zas , Osages — The past condition and present prospects of the race . FROM the period when thus discovered by the first white explorers , up to the present time ...
... feet , Mandans , Sioux , Crows , Puncas , Omahas , Ottoes , Pawnees , Kan- zas , Osages — The past condition and present prospects of the race . FROM the period when thus discovered by the first white explorers , up to the present time ...
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... is upon a nearly perpen- dicular bank of solid rock , forty or fifty feet above the bed of the river , which , at this place , changes its course to a THE MANDANS . 35 right - angle , thereby making 34 KANZAS AND NEBRASKA .
... is upon a nearly perpen- dicular bank of solid rock , forty or fifty feet above the bed of the river , which , at this place , changes its course to a THE MANDANS . 35 right - angle , thereby making 34 KANZAS AND NEBRASKA .
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... feet in diameter . Their foundations are prepared by digging some two feet in the ground , where a floor of earth is formed , and the superstructure is then pro- duced , by arranging inside the excavation a barrier of timbers , of about ...
... feet in diameter . Their foundations are prepared by digging some two feet in the ground , where a floor of earth is formed , and the superstructure is then pro- duced , by arranging inside the excavation a barrier of timbers , of about ...
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... feet above the doors of their wigwams , are suspended , on a pleasant day , the scalps of warriors , preserved as trophies , and thus proudly exposed as evidences of their warlike deeds . In other parts are raised on poles the warriors ...
... feet above the doors of their wigwams , are suspended , on a pleasant day , the scalps of warriors , preserved as trophies , and thus proudly exposed as evidences of their warlike deeds . In other parts are raised on poles the warriors ...
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appointed Arkansas river beautiful Bent's Fort bill bluffs boundary Bridger's Pass buffalo Capt Congress cotton-wood court Creek crossed Dahcotah described district dollars east eastern Eli Thayer Emigrant Aid Company encamped fertile Fort Kearney Fort Laramie Fort Leavenworth Fort Riley Fremont further enacted governor grass groves hills House hundred and fifty hundred miles Indian tribes Iowa Kanzas and Nebraska Kanzas river Kearney land Laramie latitude Leavenworth legislative assembly limestone Mandans Mississippi Missouri Compromise Missouri river mouth Nebraska and Kanzas Nebraska river northern officers Osage Osage river Pacific Pawnees pines plains Platte prairie railroad region ridge road Rocky Mountains route sandy Santa Fé Senate settlement settlers Shawnees side slavery slaves soil souri southern stream summit territory of Kanzas territory of Nebraska thence thousand three hundred timber tion treaties tributaries United valley village vote western westward wood Wyandots