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A little girl came into the smoking car of a train somewhere in Kansas or Nebraska, and stood beside her father, who was in conversation with another man. The father put his arm round her and said to his companion, "She's been a great traveller, this little girl of mine. She's only ten years old, and she's been all over the United States."
Some under the tents, others wrapped in blankets before the fire, or beneath the trees; and some few in the boats and canoes. On the 28th, they breakfasted on one of the islands which lie at the mouth of the Nebraska or Platte River the largest tributary of the Missouri, and about six hundred miles above its confluence with the Mississippi.
He heard me argue the Nebraska bill on that principle all over the State in 1854, in 1855, and in 1856, and he has no excuse for pretending to be in doubt as to my position on that question.
In July, 1877, he was finally prevailed upon to come in to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, with several thousand Indians, most of them Ogallala and Minneconwoju Sioux, on the distinct understanding that the government would hear and adjust their grievances.
Then old Daniel Simpson said that he would come out on the Great Plains, more than a thousand miles, and they had come. "There was one of the Eversleys Henry Eversley he was young and handsome. People said he was not bad. He, too, came to Nebraska. He found out where we lived; he has been here." "Ah!" said Harley. He felt that they were coming to the gist of the matter.
It early became desirable to admit into the Union both Kansas and Nebraska; and the question arose whether slavery should be excluded according to the act of 1820. The slave-holding residents of Missouri were hostile to the exclusion of slavery.
The entries were jotted down so hastily and often under such peculiar circumstances that in many cases they are written upside down, so that you have to keep turning the book about to follow it. Mr. Antone knows all about Samoan vegetation. Name of Pa's village is Atuona. Addresses of friends in San Francisco, London, Scotland, Nebraska, Philadelphia, France, Italy, New York, Hawaii.
The shadowy Angel of Death claimed her and bore her from my sight when I was but four years old. Young as I was at that time, this beautiful world has never seemed quite so bright to me since. "My father, Fayette Flagg, was a noble man of sterling worth. He belonged to a class of thrifty, hard-working, pioneer farmers, on the broad, fertile prairies of the state of Nebraska.
Snap bound Mescal's hands securely, thrust her inside the cabin, and after hesitating for a long moment, finally shut the door. "It's funny about a woman, now, ain't it?" said Nebraska, confidentially, to a companion. "One minnit she'll snatch you bald-headed; the next, she'll melt in your mouth like sugar. An' I'll be darned if the changeablest one ain't the kind to hold a feller longest.
There is but one hope left me. "In the Territory of Nebraska, far to the west thereof, lies a tract of land which the early French trappers, with shrewd fitness called the' Mauvaises Terres. It is a region of rocks, petrifactions, and other pre-Adamite peculiarities. In a paper written by Dr.
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