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  May 62 66 June 74 47 July 78 66 August 72 88 September 70 10 October 59 00 November 53 13 December 34 33


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id: 12068
type: FAC
entity:
  the River.--A Landing Effected.--The Battle.--Precipitous Retreat of the Rebels.--Spoiling a Captured Camp.--Rebel Flags Emblazoned with the State Arms.--A Journalist''s Outfit.--A Chaplain of the Church Militant.--A Mistake


id: 42322
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Hurricane Bottom"--Night on the Prairies--The Emigrant''s Bivouac--The Prairie-grass--Carlisle--Site--Advantages-- Growth--"Mound Farm


id: 44268
type: LAW
entity:
  journey.--Description of the preparations.--Fall of the Country.--Troy.--Lady Washington.--The River


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id: 18184
author: Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee)
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  design, asserted for the Mound-Builders, as indicated by the sculptures far the identification of these carvings of supposed foreign animals is Stevens''s fish-catching manatee is the same carving given by Dr. Rau, in the Archæological Collection of the United States National animal, as well as whose skill in carving, would naturally differ which they suppose the Mound-Builders became acquainted with an animal means follows that all the carving and etchings of birds or animals by case of the carvings, the resemblance of particular mounds to the By far the most important of the animal mounds, from the nature of the carving, an art to which we have seen the Mound-Builders were much Animal carvings from mounds of the Mississippi Valley, Animal carvings from mounds of the Mississippi Valley, W., Animal Carvings from Mounds of the W., Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Pipe sculpture of the mounds builders, 124 Tropical animals known to Mound Builders, 142

title:
  Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166


id: 27394
title: A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
author: Peck, John Mason
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summary:
  Soil--Inundated Land--River Bottoms, or Alluvion--Prairies-Rivers--Face of the Country--Soil--Water--Productions-lands, qualities of soil and general features of each state and of New York watered by the heads of the Alleghany river, western extensive country west of the Mississippi and north of the state of _e_: The country west of the Mississippi, and north of the State of to the Mississippi, fifty miles west of the mouth of that river. lead mine country to the Missouri river, 60 miles west of St. Louis, and or other states south of the Ohio river, have large fields, well In Illinois and several other western states, all lands purchased of the and west, by lakes, and on the south by the States of Ohio and Indiana. State; the Wabash country, on that river; and the northern portion line from the Ohio river to lake Michigan, 265 miles in length:--From


id: 23155
title: Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States
author: McConnel, John Ludlum
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summary:
  depend upon general laws, common to the intellect of all races of men; intestine wars, and the law, that men shall advance toward civilization, qualities of men came in time to be better understood than the meaning for savages, like civilized men, do not always know their friends--he Land of the Great River," the Indians called it--until the mind of the the succession of singular men who have explored and peopled the great The character of his intellect, like that of the Indian, was thoroughly intimidated the Indian for a time, and gave him a few days'' leisure, he were false, and habits of thought, like legal customs, cling to men long long time; but, in any event, he felt that men were bound, in such In the course of time--as the people of the country began to acquire new day." The time soon came when he was forced to give way before the march


id: 24400
author: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
title:
  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago


id: 7199
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7199.txt
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  THAT night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure. The night promised to be a fair one; so Tom went home with Huck stood sentry and Tom felt his way into the alley. say, Tom, now''s a mighty good time to get that box, if Injun Joe''s "Lookyhere, Huck, less not try that thing any more till we know Injun THE first thing Tom heard on Friday morning was a glad piece of news The last thing Mrs. Thatcher said to Becky, was: Presently, as they tripped along, Tom said to Becky: Tom that maybe Huck might come this very night and give the signal. "Oh, don''t do it again, Tom, it is too horrid," said Becky. By-and-by Tom took Becky''s candle and blew it out. could not tell how long--Tom said they must go softly and listen for Tom said it was time to rest again. "It''s them!" said Tom; "they''re coming!


id: 7197
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.
author: Twain, Mark
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  suffering ''most a week so you boys had a good time, but it is a pity "Yes, you could have done that, Tom," said Mary; "and I believe you "Would you, Tom?" said Aunt Polly, her face lighting wistfully. "Tom, I hoped you loved me that much," said Aunt Polly, with a grieved Tom, you''ll look back, some day, when it''s too late, and "Now, auntie, you know I do care for you," said Tom. "I wish now I''d thought," said Tom, with a repentant tone; "but I "Shut your heads and let Tom go on! said to a girl almost at Tom''s elbow--with sham vivacity: "Any other boy!" Tom thought, grating his teeth. Tom''s spelling-book fell under his eye. the master arrived and school "took in." Tom did not feel a strong seemed to make the thing worse for Tom. Becky supposed she would be


id: 7198
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7198.txt
cache: ./cache/7198.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn''t be alive two days if that got found out. The boys had a long talk, but it brought them little comfort. all forgot old Muff when he''s in trouble; but Tom don''t, and Huck boys, I done an awful thing--drunk and crazy at the time--that''s the Tom glanced at Injun Joe''s iron face and his tongue failed him. the night before the great day of the trial, and Huck was sore afraid Half the time Tom was afraid Injun Joe would never be captured; the THERE comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy''s life when he has "Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don''t want to be a king "I like this," said Tom. "Tom, you--why, you ain''t in your right mind." thoughtful silence, Injun Joe said: "I know it," said Injun Joe; "and this looks like it, I should say." Tom thought a long time.


id: 7200
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7200.txt
cache: ./cache/7200.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Tom learned of Huck''s sickness and went to see him on Friday, but Thatcher''s house was on Tom''s way, and he stopped to see Becky. The morning after the funeral Tom took Huck to a private place to have Huck had learned all about Tom''s adventure from the Welshman and the Widow Douglas, by this time, but Tom said he reckoned Then Huck told his entire adventure in confidence to Tom, who had only "Well," said Huck, presently, coming back to the main question, below "Cave Hollow," Tom said: By this time everything was ready and the boys entered the hole, Tom Tom began to fear that Huck was right. "That ain''t no bad notion, Tom!" said Huck with animation. "Now, Huck," said Tom, "we''ll hide the money in the loft of the "Huck and Tom Sawyer." HUCK said: "Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope.


id: 7147
title: The French in the Heart of America
author: Finley, John H. (John Huston)
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cache: ./cache/7147.txt
extension: .txt
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summary:
  With these the history of the north--the valleys of the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi--begins. portage into the valley of that river, it was the men of France, so far as river the brave De la Salle built his Fort St. Louis on the great rock in times that of France"--watered by a river "which, like a god of antiquity, titular life of the great empire of France in the new world actually went the people of the United States, years later, considered this transMississippi country, France, "secretly tired of her colony," finally and, perhaps, even to the old borders of New France along the Great Lakes The United States Commissioner came one day to Paris to purchase New memories of the days when their waters ran through the Mississippi Valley The old French forts have grown into new-world cities, the portage paths


id: 11151
title: The Lost Trail
author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
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  no white man or Indian would find the time or inclination for such "No," answered the man, "but we may; keep a bright look-out, Teddy, "I knows yees _prays_ for me, Misther Harvey and Miss Cora, ivery Indians, had he not secured a fair look at the man as he ran away. "Like Miss Harvey--good man''s squaw--t''ink she be good woman?" "Bad man--why not like Mr. Harvey?" said the savage, paying no "Who knows but Master Harvey has gone to the village, and Miss Cora "They say an Indian never will tell a lie to a friend," said Teddy, The line was soon stowed away, and Teddy made his way at a half-walk Indians and Teddy pursued the search for traces of the hunter''s "And so, Teddy, ye''re sayin'' it war a white man that took away the "And so, Teddy, ye''re sayin'' it war a white man that took away the


id: 12068
author: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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  of Camp Jackson.--Energy of General Lyon.--Union Men organized.--An of Camp Jackson.--Energy of General Lyon.--Union Men organized.--An General Lyon.--Capture of the State Capital.--Moving on the Enemy''s General Lyon.--Capture of the State Capital.--Moving on the Enemy''s the Rebel Government, who promised twenty-five thousand men, and arms One day the _White Cloud_, on her way from Kansas City to St. Louis, refused to halt until three shots had been fired, the last one entire Rebel army was in camp on the old Wilson Creek battle-ground, Giving her no time to remove any thing, the Rebel soldiers, claiming It was at this same fort, two years later, that the Rebel General Tennessee, told our officers that a Rebel general and his staff had At that time the Rebel army, under General Bragg, was making its New Plans of the Rebels.--Their Design to Capture Corinth,--Advancing New Plans of the Rebels.--Their Design to Capture Corinth,--Advancing

title:
  Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation


id: 8473
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
author: Twain, Mark
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  The next moment both men were flying up the pilot-house companion way, One trip a pretty girl of sixteen spent her time in our pilot-house with By this time the boat''s yawl was manned and away, to search for the pilot''s knowledge who carries the Mississippi River in his head. of what the pilot must know in order to keep a Mississippi steamer out I think a pilot''s memory is about the most wonderful thing in the world. later he took out a full license, and went to piloting day and night-The moment that the boat was under way in the river, bitter pill to have to accept association pilots at last, yet captains the association pilots and said-S----, pay him about a thousand dollars, and take an association pilot half the boats had none but association pilots, and the other half had


id: 8471
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.
author: Twain, Mark
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summary:
  instance, a man is living in the State of Mississippi to-day, a cut-off Hard Times, La., the river is two miles west of the region it used to OF OLD MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHICH LA SALLE FLOATED DOWN IN HIS CANOES, TWO fair right to think the river''s roaring demon was come. (it is high water and dead summer time), and are floating down the river went and got it and said never mind, this warn''t going to be the last of and so the Child better look out, for there was a time a-coming, just as man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to his face in the river, and come and set down by me and got out his pipe, Some said, let''s all go ashore in a pile, if the bar''l comes again. I now come to a phase of the Mississippi River life of the flush times


id: 8474
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.
author: Twain, Mark
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  In the old times, whenever two fast boats started out on a race, with a Those boats will never halt a moment between New Orleans and St. Louis, those wood-boats in tow and turn a swarm of men into each; by the time times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three made the run from St. Louis to St. Paul (800 miles) in 2 days and 20 hours. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and fortytwo years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets old bend had already begun to fill up, and the boat got to running away vanished time, is that of Brown, of the steamer ''Pennsylvania''--the man The moment I got back to the pilot-house, Brown said--


id: 8472
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.
author: Twain, Mark
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  engine bells, and in due time the boat''s nose came to the land, a torch It made my heart ache to think I had only got half of the river plain that I had got to learn this troublesome river BOTH WAYS. What is called the ''upper river'' (the two hundred miles between St. Louis and Cairo, where the Ohio comes in) was low; and the Mississippi Coming up-stream, pilots did not mind low water or any kind of ''My boy, you''ve got to know the SHAPE of the river perfectly. change the shape of the river in different ways. river in the night the same as he''d know his own front hall?'' I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the It was plain that I had got to learn the shape of the river in all the river--shapes and all--and so I can run it at night?''


id: 8475
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.
author: Twain, Mark
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summary:
  going to follow the river the rest of my days, and die at the wheel when One thing seemed plain: we must start down the river the next day, if thing to look new; the coal smoke turns it into an antiquity the moment THE RIVER ABREAST OF THE TOWN IS CROWDED WITH STEAMBOATS, stuff down the river at a time, at an expense so trivial that steamboat MY idea was, to tarry a while in every town between St. Louis and New had as many dollars as they could read alligator water a mile and a half alligator water it was said; I don''t know whether it was so or not, and old times, but it seemed to need some repairs here and there, and a new Uncle Mumford has been thirty years a mate on the river. about the only place in the Upper River that a new cub was allowed to


id: 8479
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.
author: Twain, Mark
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summary:
  All day long you hear things ''placed'' as having happened had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to largely and vaporously of old-time experiences on the river; always & when she got out of the cars at a way place i said, marm have you lost year of Littles Living Age, i didn''t know what you would like & i told When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt small boy, at the time; and I saw those giddy young ladies come crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sadfaced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. One day the head said: ''The time is not distant when I shall be freed observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her:


id: 8482
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/8482.txt
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summary:
  ''When Dean came,'' said Claggett, ''the people thought he was an escaped He granted these facts, but said that if I would hunt up Mr. Schoolcraft''s book, published near fifty years ago, and now doubtless ''I blow my breath,'' said the old man, ''and the stream stands still. crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sadfaced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat. A few miles up this river, the depth of water on the banks was fully At thirty miles above the mouth of Black River the water extends from One day the head said: ''The time is not distant when I shall be freed they had received food from the old man: but very soon the bear came in observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her:


id: 8476
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 6.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/8476.txt
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  The next time I saw my partner, I said, ''Now, come out, be honest, and man shot a boy twelve years old--happened on him in the woods, and young man rode up--steamboat laying there at the time--and the first low water the river bank is very high there (fifty feet), and in my day TIMES-DEMOCRAT''S relief-boat, see Appendix A]} The water had been to the boat, at the same time, for she can of course make more miles Devil''s Island, in the Upper River, they wanted the water to go one way, 4. Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by man on the river banks, south of Cairo, talks about it every day, during ''He had sold the other negro the third time on Arkansaw River for War. Two men whom I had served under, in my river days, took part in The usual river-gossip going on in the pilot-house.


id: 8481
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/8481.txt
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summary:
  One Monday, near the time of our visit to St. Louis, the ''GlobeDemocrat'' came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby months before my time was up, for i saw it want no good, nohow--the day little room over the stable i sat a long time thinking over my past life a chance for 3 months--he talked to me like a father for a long time, & year of Littles Living Age, i didn''t know what you would like & i told after them every Sunday hour before school time, I also got 4 girls to This letter arrived a few days after it was written--and up went Mr. Williams''s stock again. When I for the first time heard that letter read, nine years ago, I felt from the time she went in; and was always suffering, too; never got a small boy, at the time; and I saw those giddy young ladies come


id: 8477
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/8477.txt
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  I have a lodger who shall tell you all you want to know. heard nothing that I said; took no notice of my good-byes, and plainly ''The thumb''s the only sure thing,'' said he; ''you can''t disguise that.'' It was the print of the thumb of the fortythird man of Company C whom I had experimented on--Private Franz Adler. river two days to prepare my way for me is going to follow me with it; goggles behind me in that dead man''s hand. themselves, after long years; for MY hands were tied, that night, you Again the man tried to do something with his hands. You put money into the hands of a man matter off as being a small thing; but when you come to look at the watch this man all the time, and keep him within bounds; it would not do Years ago, I talked with a couple of the Vicksburg non-combatants--a man


id: 8478
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/8478.txt
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  time I saw this Mr. John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his All the passengers were on deck to look--even the gamblers--and Backus times saw the gamblers talking earnestly with Backus, and once I threw ''I CALL you!'' said Backus, heaving his golden shot-bag on the pile. speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and Delaware; on the wall by the door, copy of it done in thunder-andlightning crewels by one of the young ladies--work of art which would two are memorials of the long-ago bridal trip to New Orleans and the goods per year.''{footnote [New Orleans Times-Democrat, 26 Aug, 1882.]} A Then New Orleans piped up and said-factory in New Orleans: labels, bottles, oil, everything. bank, got a shot gun, took deliberate aim at General Mabry and fired. The instant Mabry shot, O''Connor turned and fired, the


id: 8480
title: Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/8480.txt
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  me--now captain of the great steamer ''City of Baton Rouge,'' the latest One of the pilots whom I had known when I was on the river had died a buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, had stepped out of his house in New Orleans, one night years ago, to I was told that one of my pilot friends fell dead at the wheel, from WE had some talk about Captain Isaiah Sellers, now many years dead. steamboat pilot, still surviving at the time I speak of, had ever turned largely and vaporously of old-time experiences on the river; always river, and sign them ''MARK TWAIN,'' and give them to the ''New Orleans of it, in the captain''s own hand, has been sent to me from New Orleans. was a very real honor to be in the thoughts of so great a man as Captain


id: 7196
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7196.txt
cache: ./cache/7196.txt
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  "Huck Finn the Red-Handed, and Joe Harper the Terror of the Seas." Tom "You see," said Tom, "people don''t go much on hermits, nowadays, like While Joe was slicing bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck asked him to "Oh, it ain''t the bread, so much," said Tom; "I reckon it''s mostly The other boys agreed that there was reason in what Tom said, because "I hope Tom''s better off where he is," said Sid, "but if he''d been "Oh no, Joe, you''ll feel better by and by," said Tom. "Who cares!" said Tom. Huck started sorrowfully away, and Tom stood looking after him, with a taste, and they gagged a little, but Tom said: wish I could do that; but I never thought I could," said Tom. "Well, I have too," said Tom; "oh, hundreds of times. Tom''s and Joe''s--came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and


id: 7194
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7194.txt
cache: ./cache/7194.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "Please, Tom--that''s a good boy." children set out for Sunday-school--a place that Tom hated with his elderly man, interfered; then turned his back a moment and Tom pulled a superintendent (as Tom expressed it) had always made this boy come out That is the way good little boys and girls should do. pretty warning fingers at bad little boys and patting good ones And now at this moment, when hope was dead, Tom Sawyer came forward Judge put his hand on Tom''s head and called him a fine little man, and Tom groaned louder, and fancied that he began to feel pain in the toe. worked well, and Tom began to groan again. spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, "Sour grapes!" and he Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied When school broke up at noon, Tom flew to Becky Thatcher, and Come back, Tom!"


id: 7195
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7195.txt
cache: ./cache/7195.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  "Dares to hold such language," said Tom, prompting--for they talked combat, "two up and two down." Presently Tom said: "Now," said Joe, getting up, "you got to let me kill YOU. gave his bow into his feeble hands, and Tom said, "Where this arrow AT half-past nine, that night, Tom and Sid were sent to bed, as usual. the bed''s head made Tom shudder--it meant that somebody''s days were Presently Tom seized his comrade''s arm and said: Tom thought a while, then he said: Tom said nothing--went on thinking. "Tom," whispered Huckleberry, "does this keep us from EVER telling Tom, s''pose it''s Injun Joe!" People in the branches of the trees over Tom''s head said he wasn''t face and she came to Tom''s relief without knowing it. Every day or two, during this time of sorrow, Tom watched his Tom said: and she put her hand on Tom''s head and said gently:


id: 7193
title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1.
author: Twain, Mark
txt: ./txt/7193.txt
cache: ./cache/7193.txt
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mime: text/plain
summary:
  own dead sister''s boy, poor thing, and I ain''t got the heart to lash Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. The old lady reached out her hand and felt Tom''s shirt, and said: Tom drew a line in the dust with his big toe, and said: through the fog of battle Tom appeared, seated astride the new boy, and At last the stranger got out a smothered "''Nuff!" and Tom let him up the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom''s eyes, before, but Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little." Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. TOM presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open Tom came up to the fence and Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity.


id: 9153
author: Le Page du Pratz
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summary:
  the bay of Mexico; being watered with a great number of rivers, the navigation of that river; and in time those new settlements may come not to mention the great river Missouri, which runs to the north-west turn to any great account to this nation in all North America, or that d'' Escadre, having discovered, in 1698, the mouths of the river St. Louis, and being nominated Governor General of that vast country, bay of Mexico, to the westward of the Missisippi, are described by Mr. Coxe, in his account of Carolina, called by the French Louisiana.] river and two brooks, in a fine country, with little wood. _The Author''s Journey in_ Louisiana, _from the Natchez to the River St. Francis, and the Country of the Chicasaws._ wood and water, where we put up in good time: then at sun-set, when To the north of all those nations, and near the river Missisippi, it

title:
  The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi


id: 40143
title: France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
author: Parkman, Francis
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  Salle''s men, refusing to follow him, returned to La Chine, and that the Having sent men, canoes, and baggage, by land, to La Salle''s old La Salle, with Tonty, La Motte, and thirty men, set sail for Canada, and Meanwhile, La Salle and Tonty were on their way from Fort Frontenac, numbered twenty men.[170] They had destroyed the fort on the St. Joseph, seized a quantity of furs belonging to La Salle at When La Salle set out on his rugged journey to Fort Frontenac, he left, Salle himself was there, whence it must follow that Tonty and his men Louisiana.--Illness of La Salle: his Colony on the Illinois.--Fort Louisiana.--Illness of La Salle: his Colony on the Illinois.--Fort St. Domingo, and direct the four thousand Indian warriors at Fort St. Louis of the Illinois to descend the river and join him. Buffalo.--Duhaut.--Indian Massacre.--Return Of La Salle.--A New


id: 47351
title: Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
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  to land in what is now New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, famous National Road running from Cumberland, Maryland, almost to St. Louis was a potent factor in the awakening of the West. it that Washington was surveying lands on the Great Kanawha and Ohio rivers and the Great Lakes by way of the Ohio and its tributaries? known to-day as "Washington''s Bottoms," on the Ohio near Wheeling and that New York would not improve her great route to the West (Mohawk Ohio Company played a most important role in the history of the West hand, the Ohio Company could not secure Western land without being needed by generals to guide the armies, by the great land-companies to there were Gratiot, Delafield, Bliss, Bartlett, Hartzell, Colquit, National Stage Company was the most important west of the Ohio River. Baltimore to the West.--The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company''s


id: 31907
author: Holmes, William Henry
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  A much larger vessel resembling the above in shape is given in Fig. 367. A very good illustration of this class of vessel is given in Fig. 375. Fig. 379 illustrates a large shallow bowl or pan of ordinary form A vessel of somewhat extraordinary form is shown in Fig. 380. The vessel shown in Fig. 381 is also finished in imitation of a bird. Another good illustration of this class of vessels is shown in Fig. 403. ILLUSTRATIONS.--_Ordinary forms._--The vessel shown in Fig. 407 may be 415.--Vessel of eccentric form: Pecan Point, High-necked, full-bodied bottles form a decided feature in the pottery We have in Fig. 433 a good example of bottle-shaped vessels, the neck The vase shown in Fig. 438 has also the double body, the vessels The vessel illustrated in Fig. 443 is of ordinary, dark, polished of the bird forms the top of the neck of the bottle--the body of the

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  Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436


id: 47262
title: Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863
author: Merrick, George Byron
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  pilot work his boat through a tangled piece of river, knowing that reversing gear of a Mississippi River steamboat, in old times, was greater part of the fuel used on old-time river boats was purchased. river men, know of but one "old man" aboard the boat, although the captain on the river could, in case of necessity, pilot his boat novice in the business might take a steamer from St. Louis to St. Paul with very fair success, while the same man would hang his boat upper Mississippi River pilots who handled steamboats prior to 1836. CONEWAGO--Stern-wheel; built at Brownsville, Pa., 1854; 186 tons; St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Co., 1855; 1856; 1857--Capt. whistle on upper river; Captain Lodwick 1849; 1850; in Galena and St. Paul trade; Capt. EQUATOR--Stern-wheel; built at Beaver, Pa., 1853; 162 tons; in St. Paul trade 1855, 1856; Minnesota River 1857--Captain Sencerbox;


id: 42322
title: Flagg''s The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1
author: Flagg, Edmund
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  Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlements Sublimity--Villages--A new Geology--Rivers--Islands--Forests-Public Edifices--Square--Church--Bank--Land-office--"Illinois Island at the Falls of the Ohio, opposite the present city, land From this spot the river stretches away in a long delightful reach, the waters of the Muddy River enter the Mississippi from Illinois.[53] miles west of this village is said to exist a great natural curiosity, beautiful residence, and that series of ancient mounds for which St. Louis is famous, were next passed in succession, while upon the right years since was situated the little French village of _Cape au Gris_, the past few years, St. Louis remains emphatically "a little _French_ St. Louis, like most Western cities, can boast but few public edifices village presents a delightful summer-retreat to the citizens of St. Louis, only ten miles distant. beautiful mound, rising on the prairie''s edge south of the village, are situated upon a beautiful eminence one mile west of the village,


id: 44935
title: Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
author: nan
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  Rabbit and the tar wolf, which came from Indian slaves working in the Then Earth-maker said to this man, "The evil spirits are abroad to When night came, Manabush went to a spot between the places where the At last one Bear chief said, "This tree is Manabush. While Manabush was still a young man, he said to Nokomis, the Earth, "I cannot eat in this noise," said Manabush, and he climbed the tree. Manabush said to Great Fish, "I shall destroy you because you will not One day long after Manabush had gone away from his people, an Indian One day a large village of wigwams came in their trail. One day Rabbit came near the well, carrying a long One day Rabbit said to "This is what I have always liked," said Bear when he went home. Rabbit said, "I told you that you could not eat people.


id: 44823
title: Narrative of a Journey Down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90
author: Forman, Samuel S.
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  when Major Burrows rode near by, eked out in British uniform; Mr. DuBois spoke to Captain Schenck, his brother-in-law, "Look, there is a [6] General Forman was born near Englishtown, Monmouth Co., New on a tobacco boat, which Captain Osmun commanded, and on board of It being in Indian war time, all boats descending that Uncle Forman''s keel-boat, Captain Osmun''s flat-boat, and Colonel Uncle Forman, Colonel Wyckoff, and I went on shore, and walked up to dinner, the officer of the day called on General Harmar for the river; and one day Indians visited it, killing his people, and captains, and some of the hands, with a small boat, went on shore, After my arrival, and while sojourning at Natchez, Uncle Forman asked General David Forman of New Jersey in 1789, entered into a negotiation General David Forman of New Jersey in 1789, entered into a negotiation


id: 44268
title: The Americans as They Are Described in a tour through the valley of the Mississippi
author: Sealsfield, Charles
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  planter of the state of Mississippi.--Remarks.--Return to Natchez. Ohio is bounded on the north by lake Erie, on the west by the state nevertheless, not any city in the state of Ohio to be compared with New steam boats at this place either for New Orleans or for Cincinnati. south, from the river Ohio, to the state of Tennessee, having for its of the Mississippi and the Ohio, forming the boundary of this state, boat, the poor fellow died three days after his arrival at New Orleans. and six miles from the Mississippi, a town having a court-house, The State of Mississippi was received into the Union in the year capital of one million of dollars; the Bank of the State, the Louisiana When the United States took possession of New Orleans, this town present population of the state, and of New Orleans. in the state of Louisiana, the college of New Orleans, is now


id: 53648
author: Parker, A. A. (Amos Andrew)
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  of emigrants--Fox river--upper house--lost in a prairie at night--log with timber--more than half prairie--a level State--generally Rivers of Texas--seacoast--mill-seats--land grants--number of of two miles, commencing near Black river road, and terminating at eight miles from Ithaca, near a landing place called Goodwin''s point; new road, generally through timbered land, passed seven or eight small travelled twenty or thirty miles west, towards Rock river. Ten miles from the river, a new town, called Princeton, is laid out in the State--rich bottoms, swamps, prairies, timbered lands, high bluffs About a mile above this place, we left Red River, and travelled the After passing the river and about a mile of bottom land, we came to the Mississippi river, you come to light, sandy, hilly land; generally of Trinity river, it is generally an open prairie country. The country near this river, for fifteen miles above its mouth, is what

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  Trip to the West and Texas comprising a journey of eight thousand miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the autumn and winter of 1834-5.


