... History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888

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History Company, 1890 - 828 Seiten
 

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Seite 419 - it was alleged, distributed more mail than any office in the territory. An act was passed increasing the repaldic rules; as a crest above the shield the eye of God, being golden rays proceeding from the lines of a triangle; below the crest, and above the shield, as a scroll, the Roman fasces, bearing
Seite 430 - An act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators." An act approved in May constituted Colorado and Utah one surveying district, with the office of the sur-gen. at Denver.
Seite 419 - proceeding from the lines of a triangle; below the crest, and above the shield, as a scroll, the Roman fasces, bearing on a band of red, white, and blue, the words Union and Constitution ; below the whole, the motto Nil Sine
Seite 41 - On the other hand Nidever, Life and Adv., MS., 58, distinctly states: ' In the spring there were a large number of trappers gathered at the rendezvous in Green River Valley, and among them Capt. Walker and company bound for California. We joined him, making a party in all of
Seite 57 - singular place to travel through, shut up in the earth, a sort of chasm, the little strip of grass under our feet, the rough walls of bare rock on either hand, and narrow strip of sky above.
Seite 57 - New Year's day, 1844, saw them continuing down the valley "between a dry-looking black ridge on the left, and a more snowy and high one on the right." The grass was gone, and a finely powdered sand and saline efflorescence covered the ground. Next day they crossed south-easterly the dry bed of a large muddy lake. In a dense fog which scattered the men
Seite 426 - At sight pay to the order of Mrs Julia A. Ford thirty dollars, value received, and charge the same to the account of William Gilpin, Governor of Colorado Territory. To the Secretary of the United States Treasury, Washington, DC, Number 220.
Seite 512 - where he became part owner in the Crown Point, Pinnacle, and Big Chief mines, besides having other mining interests. He was elected to the lower house of the general assembly in
Seite 358 - savages, ready and panting for plunder and blood. If they engage in battling out old causes of contention among themselves the Messrs Bent feel comparatively safe in their solitary fortress. But if they spare each other's property and lives there are great anxieties at Fort William;
Seite 691 - In 1841 passed the forts the first deliberate emigration to Oregon and California of men, women, and children, fifteen in number." The same year passed Bidwell's California company. In 1842 Elijah White's Oregon company of 112 men, women, and children, and a train of

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