 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Juliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Juliet were the first white men who trod the soil of Iowa. Commending themselves to God, they uttered... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1843 - 524 pages
...1673. sands the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, ^m- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name i"m. into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 pages
...the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned June . . . 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half qM^i from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, coml or Moingona, of which we have corrupted... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 374 pages
...on its sands the trail of men ; a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moiugona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were the first... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Authors - 1845 - 662 pages
...on its sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-ua, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1846 - 528 pages
...1673 sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, com- Of Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name pare Chill !<•• into Des Moines. Marquette... | |
 | James Dixon - Canada - 1849 - 522 pages
...leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to have a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles,...the banks of a river, and two others on a slope, at the distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mon-ingon-e-na, or Moingona, of... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1850 - 516 pages
...the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned June • . r 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, co>"- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name .oiT'ih". into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet... | |
 | America - 1850 - 322 pages
...in a savage country. We followed this little path in silence about two leagues, when we discovered a village on the banks of a river, and two others on a hill about half a league from the first. We now commended ourselves to God, and having implored his... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1853 - 520 pages
...1673 sands the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, com- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name «!?,rm'. into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet... | |
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Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men; a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie, and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles they beheld a... 
