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I regret that my duties on a daily paper are so exacting I cannot be with you , and
still more from the fact that last reunion was held only across the river from me , at
Rock Island , where I worked hard for the success it proved , as I trust .
I regret that my duties on a daily paper are so exacting I cannot be with you , and
still more from the fact that last reunion was held only across the river from me , at
Rock Island , where I worked hard for the success it proved , as I trust .
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It was generally assumed that such a road could not be made along any of the
immigrant roads then in use , and Warner ' s orders were to look farther north up
the Feather river , or some of its tributaries . Warner was engaged in this survey ...
It was generally assumed that such a road could not be made along any of the
immigrant roads then in use , and Warner ' s orders were to look farther north up
the Feather river , or some of its tributaries . Warner was engaged in this survey ...
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... details the evidence upon which the claim is founded , and shows that as early
as 1834 ( possibly in 1833 ) , Dr . Barlow advocated the construction of a railroad
from New York to the mouth of the Columbia river , by direct appropriations from ...
... details the evidence upon which the claim is founded , and shows that as early
as 1834 ( possibly in 1833 ) , Dr . Barlow advocated the construction of a railroad
from New York to the mouth of the Columbia river , by direct appropriations from ...
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railroad from the head navigable waters of the noble rivers disemboguing into the
ocean . , In 1819 he published a work ... When I first saw the country west of the
Missouri river it was without civil government , inhabited almost exclusively by ...
railroad from the head navigable waters of the noble rivers disemboguing into the
ocean . , In 1819 he published a work ... When I first saw the country west of the
Missouri river it was without civil government , inhabited almost exclusively by ...
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It is difficult , I doubt not , for you to comprehend the fact that the first time I
crossed the Missouri river was on a raft , and at the point where stands the city of
Omaha to - day . That night I slept in the “ tepee ” of an Omaha Indian . When I
crossed ...
It is difficult , I doubt not , for you to comprehend the fact that the first time I
crossed the Missouri river was on a raft , and at the point where stands the city of
Omaha to - day . That night I slept in the “ tepee ” of an Omaha Indian . When I
crossed ...
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Page 538 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
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| Title | Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at the ... Meeting[s] ..., 21–23. köide |
| Author | Society of the Army of the Tennessee |
| Publisher | The Society., 1893 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 veeb. 2008 |
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