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I think they were in more danger from the latter than the former, but they seemed perfectly confident of their ability to hold their own against both. See Barton, the Madison MSS., Schoolcraft, Thos.
As a result Mr. Schoolcraft urged upon the Secretary of War the necessity of marking the line. Seven thousand dollars were appropriated by the act of June 26, 1834, for the purpose of running this line, and the next spring Major J. L. Bean, accompanied by Duncan Campbell, the Sioux interpreter of the agency, commenced the survey.
Far from being peculiar to Aryan mythology, this legend occurs, as Mr. The Red Indian story told by Schoolcraft in his 'Algic Researches' is most like the Aryan version, but has some native peculiarities. Wampee was a great hunter, who, on the lonely prairie, once heard strains of music.
The very corner stone of schoolcraft is service, and one fundamental lesson that the tyro in schoolcraft must learn, especially in this materialistic age, is that the value of service is not to be measured in dollars and cents.
The Red Indians, as Schoolcraft says, 'hold many of the planets to be transformed adventurers. The Iowas 'believed stars to be a sort of living creatures. One of them came down and talked to a hunter, and showed him where to find game. The Gallinomeros of Central California, according to Mr.
This gentleman, it may be remembered, had especially recommended himself to my confidence by his friendly interference when the sheriff's officers were in search of my husband's papers. Referring back to the evidence Of "Isaiah Schoolcraft," I found that Mr. Playmore had been called in to assist and advise Eustace by Miserrimus Dexter.
I let this deadlock continue forty-one for Dunkirk, forty-one for Schoolcraft until I felt that the party throughout the state was heartily sick of the struggle. Then Woodruff bought, at twelve thousand dollars apiece, two Dunkirk men to vote to transfer the contest to the floor of a joint session of the two houses.
By comparing the statements of observers, old and new, the character of their singular organization becomes sufficiently clear. Though often differing widely from Mr. Morgan's conclusions, I cannot bear a too emphatic testimony to the value of his researches. H. R. Schoolcraft also contain some interesting facts; but here, as in all Mr.
These are placed at the head or foot of the grave, or both, and have painted or carved on them a history of the deceased or his family, certain totemic characters, or, according to Schoolcraft, not the achievements of the dead, but of those warriors who assisted and danced at the interment.
Beltrami attacked Pike ; Schoolcraft fleshed his pen in Beltrami; Allen, who accompanied Schoolcraft, afterward became his enemy and branded him as a geographical quack; Nicollet arraigned both Schoolcraft and Allen for incompetency; and so on. And now, at this late day, in a mild way tradition repeats itself. Your great original geographer, Mr.
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