Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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"It will be seen that camp-meetings first originated in the West; nor did they commence with the Methodists, but, upon a Sacramental occasion, among the Presbyterians... They were continued until they became general among the Methodists throughout the Uni
Description:
P. 219.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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"Their towns equal in extent and population [to] the largest cities of Europe; some extending many miles in length, with considerable regularity in their streets, and their houses of a uniform style of architecture."
Description:
P. 51, associated with p. 65.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
The journal of Lewis and Clarke, to the mouth of the Columbia River beyond the Rocky Mountains. In
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Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780, Clark, William, 1770-1838, Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), and Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820
Subject (Topic):
Cree language --Glossaries, vocabularies, etc and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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"At sunset, their day's journey finished, they halt, perhaps, in the forest by the roadside, to prepare for supper and to pass the night. The horses are unharnessed, watered and secured, with their heads to the trough, or else hoppled out to grass."
Description:
P. 35 [279].
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
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""In the meantime his heroic wife was busily engaged in defending the door against the efforts of the only remaining Indian, whom she so severely wounded, with the ax, that he was soon glad to retire.""
Description:
P. 155.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America