The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries, Volume 19W. Abbatt, 1914 - History |
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... carried his blankets North with him , when so many were suffering every night for such covering , but who actually carried away a lot of condemned food that had come through for him under flag of truce . He may have had shipwreck or a ...
... carried his blankets North with him , when so many were suffering every night for such covering , but who actually carried away a lot of condemned food that had come through for him under flag of truce . He may have had shipwreck or a ...
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... carrying her baby suspended on her back in Indian fashion . The statue depicts her in the act of reaching up with her ... carried on . In the lan- guage of the Hidatsa , the tribe among whom she spent her childhood and from whom she ...
... carrying her baby suspended on her back in Indian fashion . The statue depicts her in the act of reaching up with her ... carried on . In the lan- guage of the Hidatsa , the tribe among whom she spent her childhood and from whom she ...
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... carrying off both booty and prisoners to Canada , disappearing from the valley as suddenly as they came . Teondetha was ... carried off the women and children , and burned another ; and indeed so rapid were their operations , that the ...
... carrying off both booty and prisoners to Canada , disappearing from the valley as suddenly as they came . Teondetha was ... carried off the women and children , and burned another ; and indeed so rapid were their operations , that the ...
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... carry the house even after discovering that it was defended . His rifles were so few in number that they were barely suffi- cient to defend one side of the house at a time ; and , though both doors and windows were barricaded , the ...
... carry the house even after discovering that it was defended . His rifles were so few in number that they were barely suffi- cient to defend one side of the house at a time ; and , though both doors and windows were barricaded , the ...
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... carried with him on these excursions , when the rapid disappearance of game in his own level country induced Teondetha to shift his wigwam to these mountain solitudes . Of Guisbert or Guise , as the " Bois - brulé . " or half - blood ...
... carried with him on these excursions , when the rapid disappearance of game in his own level country induced Teondetha to shift his wigwam to these mountain solitudes . Of Guisbert or Guise , as the " Bois - brulé . " or half - blood ...
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