Stories of MissouriAmerican Book Company, 1897 - 288 strani |
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army attack band became began Benton Big Neck Bill Anderson blockhouse Boones Lick country Bouvet brave bullets cabin called camp Captain Chouteau Colonel command Confederate Creek Daniel Boone declared Delassus district Doniphan early election enemy fight fired fled force forest France French friends Genevieve Gentiles Governor Jackson guerrillas Gunn City HONEY WAR horses Howard County hundred hunter Indians ironclad oath Jefferson City Jo Shelby journey keel boat killed known Laclède land Legislature lieutenant lived Louis Loutre Lyon Madrid marched Marquette Mexicans miles Mississippi Missouri River Missourians Mormons named Nathaniel Lyon night officers Orleans Osage party peace pioneer prairie Price Ralls County rangers reached regiment rifle Salle salt savages seized settled settlement settlers shore shot side soldiers soon souri Spanish Sterling Price stream Territory took town trade troops Union United Upper Louisiana village wilderness wounded
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Stran 227 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Stran 69 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Stran 252 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Stran 84 - I suppose we must let you stay." But this apparent ungraciousness is the harbinger of every kindness that he can bestow, and every comfort that his cabin can afford. Good coffee, corn bread and butter, venison, pork, wild and tame fowls are set before you. His wife, timid, silent, reserved, but constantly attentive to your comfort, does not sit at the table with you, but like the wives of the patriarchs, stands and attends on you.
Stran 84 - Remember that all his first days here were passed in dread of the savages. Remember that he still encounters them, still meets bears and panthers. Enter his door and tell him you are benighted and wish the shelter of his cabin for the night. The welcome is indeed seemingly ungracious: "I reckon you can stay," or "I suppose we must let you stay.
Stran 85 - ... many things in the picture, that would strike us offensively. They care little about ministers, and think less about paying them. They are averse to all, even the most necessary restraints. They are destitute of the forms and observances of society and religion; but they are sincere and kind without...
Stran 145 - Francis in the other, including a front of three hundred miles, was convulsed to such a degree as to create lakes and islands, the number of which is not yet known...
Stran 84 - You find, in truth, that he has vices and barbarisms, peculiar to his situation. His manners are rough. He wears, it may be, a long beard. He has a great quantity of bear or deer skins wrought into his household establishment, his furniture, and dress. He carries a knife, or a dirk in his bosom, and when in the woods has a rifle on his back, and a pack of dogs at his heels. An Atlantic stranger, transferred directly from one of our cities to his door, would recoil from...
Stran 85 - They care little about ministers, and think less about paying them. They are averse to all, even the most necessary restraints. They are destitute of the forms and observances of society and religion; but they are sincere and kind without professions, and have a coarse, but substantial morality...
Stran 150 - Large and beautiful orchards, left uninclosed, houses uninhabited, deep chasms in the earth, obvious at frequent intervals, — such was the face of the country, although the people had for years become so accustomed to frequent and small shocks, which did no essential injury, that the lands were gradually rising again in value, and New Madrid was slowly rebuilding, with frail buildings, adapted to the apprehensions of the people.