Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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"It will be seen that camp-meetings first originated in the West; nor did they commence with the Methodists, but, upon a Sacramental occasion, among the Presbyterians... They were continued until they became general among the Methodists throughout the Uni
Description:
P. 219.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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"Their towns equal in extent and population [to] the largest cities of Europe; some extending many miles in length, with considerable regularity in their streets, and their houses of a uniform style of architecture."
Description:
P. 51, associated with p. 65.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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"At sunset, their day's journey finished, they halt, perhaps, in the forest by the roadside, to prepare for supper and to pass the night. The horses are unharnessed, watered and secured, with their heads to the trough, or else hoppled out to grass."
Description:
P. 35 [279].
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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""In the meantime his heroic wife was busily engaged in defending the door against the efforts of the only remaining Indian, whom she so severely wounded, with the ax, that he was soon glad to retire.""
Description:
P. 155.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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""Of the number thus cruelly murdered by the backwoodsmen of the upper Ohio, between fifty and sixty were women and children- some of them innocent babes.""
Description:
P. 107.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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Abstract:
"It is on the site of an ancient Indian pueblo, some 15 miles east of the Rio del Norte, at the base of a snow-clad mountain, and contains a little over 3000 souls."
Description:
P. 367.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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1
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"The thirst for gold and the labor of acquisition, overruled all else, and totally absorbed every faculty. Complete silence reigned among the miners; they addressed not a word to each other, and seemed averse to all conversation."
Description:
Associated with p. 406.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
