The History of North America: The Louisiana Purchase and the westward movement, by C.M. Geersubscribers only, 1904 |
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... miles apart , seemed to give them a right to the country . They did not claim the exclusive right , because they wished to keep it a wilderness and use it as a wide hunting ground in which the Frenchman and Indian would live together ...
... miles apart , seemed to give them a right to the country . They did not claim the exclusive right , because they wished to keep it a wilderness and use it as a wide hunting ground in which the Frenchman and Indian would live together ...
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... miles from their old home in Canada and were compelled to depend upon their own resources . They re- ceived news of the outside world only through the trappers and traders who made infrequent visits to them . Unlike the later pioneers ...
... miles from their old home in Canada and were compelled to depend upon their own resources . They re- ceived news of the outside world only through the trappers and traders who made infrequent visits to them . Unlike the later pioneers ...
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... miles without difficulty . The journey northward to Ohio River or southward along the branches of the Tennessee presented no difficulties to the pioneer . The first westward movement was from the Central and Southern colonies . The ...
... miles without difficulty . The journey northward to Ohio River or southward along the branches of the Tennessee presented no difficulties to the pioneer . The first westward movement was from the Central and Southern colonies . The ...
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... miles to Boones- borough in five days . On August 8th , a combined party of British , French , and Indians attacked the fort , subjecting it to a regular siege , in the course of which the French com- mander persuaded Boone and eight ...
... miles to Boones- borough in five days . On August 8th , a combined party of British , French , and Indians attacked the fort , subjecting it to a regular siege , in the course of which the French com- mander persuaded Boone and eight ...
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... miles distant , and at once felt that there was strong doubt about his being able to hold Vincennes against the superior forces of the British , as he could place little reliance upon his creole followers . An attempt to com- municate ...
... miles distant , and at once felt that there was strong doubt about his being able to hold Vincennes against the superior forces of the British , as he could place little reliance upon his creole followers . An attempt to com- municate ...
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