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- Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle…
- We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along…
- Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky…
- We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
- We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days…
- A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short…
- The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
- The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were…
- We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
- The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of…
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