Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Band 3Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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... nearly a century the journals existed only in manuscript . In 1884 Charles S. Sargent , director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University , prepared the manuscript for the press , with explanatory notes chiefly on botanical matters ...
... nearly a century the journals existed only in manuscript . In 1884 Charles S. Sargent , director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University , prepared the manuscript for the press , with explanatory notes chiefly on botanical matters ...
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... nearly a year later , the Cumberland fron- tier had extended , and Fort Blount had been built forty miles to the eastward as a protection for the ever - increas- ing number of travellers and pioneers . The western borders of Cumberland ...
... nearly a year later , the Cumberland fron- tier had extended , and Fort Blount had been built forty miles to the eastward as a protection for the ever - increas- ing number of travellers and pioneers . The western borders of Cumberland ...
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... nearly all the routes by which emigration was pouring into the Western country — the Wilderness Road to Kentucky , the routes from North Carolina over the mountains to East Tennessee , the Wilderness Road of Tennessee ( this last a ...
... nearly all the routes by which emigration was pouring into the Western country — the Wilderness Road to Kentucky , the routes from North Carolina over the mountains to East Tennessee , the Wilderness Road of Tennessee ( this last a ...
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... nearly sixty were published . Harvard honored itself by conferring upon him the degree of doctor of divinity in 1813 , and during his entire later life he acted as overseer in the college corporation . His eldest son , a well - known ...
... nearly sixty were published . Harvard honored itself by conferring upon him the degree of doctor of divinity in 1813 , and during his entire later life he acted as overseer in the college corporation . His eldest son , a well - known ...
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... nearly disappeared from this region , where less than thirty years before Croghan had found them in such vast numbers . Butricke ( Historical Magazine , viii , p . 259 ) says that in 1768 they were scarce above the Scioto River . The ...
... nearly disappeared from this region , where less than thirty years before Croghan had found them in such vast numbers . Butricke ( Historical Magazine , viii , p . 259 ) says that in 1768 they were scarce above the Scioto River . The ...
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