Category: History - American
The first Encampment--The Oatman Family--Their checkered Allotment up to the Time of their Emigration--Mr. Oatman--His Ill-health--Proposes to join the Party organized to form an American Colony near the Gulf of California, in 1849--The 10th of August--Discord in Camp, owing t...
Lorenzo Oatman--Conscious of most of the Scenes of the Massacre--The next Day he finds himself at the Foot of a rocky Declivity, over which he had fallen--Makes an Effort to wal...
11. CHAPTER IV.The Journey of three hundred and fifty Miles to the Mohave Valley--The Means of Subsistence during the Time--The Conduct of the Mohaves compared with the Apaches--Arrive at the...
14. CHAPTER VII.Francisco goes over the River, and spends the Night--Persuades some of the Sub-Chiefs to apply again for Permission to let Olive go free--His Threats--The Chiefs return with him...
8. CHAPTER I.The first Encampment--The Oatman Family--Their checkered Allotment up to the Time of their Emigration--Mr. Oatman--His Ill-health--Proposes to join the Party organized to form a...
9. CHAPTER II.Mrs. and Mrs. Oatman in Perplexity--Interview with Dr. Lecount--Advises them to proceed--They start alone--Teams begin to fail--The Roads are bad--The Country rough and mountain...
12. CHAPTER V.The Mohaves--Their Sports--An Expedition of Hostility against the Cochopas--Its Design--Tradition concerning it--The Preparation--Their Custom of Sacrificing a Prisoner on the D...
13. CHAPTER VI.Lorenzo Oatman--His Stay at Fort Yuma--Goes with Dr. Hewit to San Francisco--His constant Misery on Account of his Sisters--Dark Thoughts--Cold Sympathy--Goes to the Mines--Reso...
16. PART III. From the invention of printing until the present time, inDr. Townley’s Illustrations are essential to every good library, and to all persons who are desirous to attain an adequate and a correct acquaintance with the literature and the...
7. CHAPTER VII.Francisco goes over the River, and spends the Night--Persuades some of the Sub-Chiefs to apply again for Permission to let Olive go free--His Threats--The Chiefs return with him...
3. CHAPTER III.Lorenzo Oatman--Conscious of most of the Scenes of the Massacre--The next Day he finds himself at the Foot of a rocky Declivity, over which he had fallen--Makes an Effort to wal...
2. CHAPTER II.Mr. and Mrs. Oatman in Perplexity--Interview with Dr. Lecount--Advises them to proceed--They start alone--Teams begin to fail--The Roads are bad--The Country rough and mountaino...
1. CHAPTER I.The first Encampment--The Oatman Family--Their checkered Allotment up to the Time of their Emigration--Mr. Oatman--His Ill-health--Proposes to join the Party organized to form a...
4. CHAPTER IV.The Journey of three hundred and fifty Miles to the Mohave Valley--The Means of Subsistence during the Time--The Conduct of the Mohaves compared with the Apaches--Arrive at the...
6. CHAPTER VI.Lorenzo Oatman--His Stay at Fort Yuma--Goes with Dr. Hewit to San Francisco--His constant Misery on Account of his Sisters--Dark Thoughts--Cold Sympathy--Goes to the Mines--Reso...
5. CHAPTER V.The Mohaves--Their Sports--An Expedition of Hostility against the Cochopas--Its Design--Tradition concerning it--The Preparation--Their Custom of sacrificing a Prisoner on the D...
15. PART II. From the birth of Christ to the invention of the art of