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Seite 154 - Previously the boundary along the 49th parallel had been surveyed to the Gulf of Georgia in settling the Oregon question. A volume published for the author, Philip Tome, in Buffalo in 1854, now very rare, is Pioneer Life, or Thirty Years a Hunter. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome, Fifteen Years Interpreter for Cornplanter and George Blacksnake, Chiefs on the Alleghany River. Cornplanter, a half-breed Seneca, was one of the most distinguished of the Iroquois leaders. In the early...
Seite 147 - Rough Times in Rough Places" in The Century Magazine, vol. Xix. After this catastrophe Fremont proceeded to' California by the far southern route of upper Mexico and the Gila, arriving just as the great gold excitement was in its first heat. Thousands were now preparing to follow thousands to the fortune-field that lay against what Fremont previously had named the Golden Gate. It mattered not that the way was beset with impossibilities for the greenhorn (or in later nomenclature, the tenderfoot)...