 | Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown - Social Science - 1976 - 400 pages
...parts of America which succumbed to white men: Behind the squaw's light birch canoe, The steamer rocks and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves.78 Death from conflicts resulting from commercial rivalries on the river added to the graves.... | |
 | David E. Nye - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...Whittier appeared just after the title page: Behind the squaw's light birch canoe, The steamer rocks and raves; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be— The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll... | |
 | English periodicals - 1900 - 684 pages
...their more attractive forefathers. But much that the American poet then wrote is still true : — " Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer...lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Irwin Scofield Guernsey - United States - 1922 - 736 pages
...from the 1 Whittier, A propos of the bewildering changes that took place in the Wild West, wrote : " Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer...lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll... | |
 | Ohio - 1924 - 784 pages
...Annual address at meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, September 9. 1922. Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer...lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. In the onward march of the people across the continent, in a thousand different valleys, at the foot... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1866 - 832 pages
...ago knew none but their canoes and the rafts. Dchind the squaw's light lurch canoe The steamer rocks and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian grave?. I hear the tread of pioneers, Of nations yet to be — The, first low wash of waves where soon... | |
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Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea. 
