Category: History - American
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
This crane is a social bird, sometimes assembling together in considerable flocks. They were now in great numbers, soaring aloft in the air, flying with an irregular kind of gyr...
11. CHAPTER III {I}[18WHEN an Omawhaw dies, his kinsmen and friends assemble around his body, and bewail their loss with loud lamentation, weeping, and clapping of hands. Ong-pa-ton-ga, being once on...
9. PART II OF JAMES'S ACCOUNT OF S. H. LONG'SIN the Omawhaw nation, numbers of the females are betrothed in marriage from their infancy; and as polygamy is extremely common, the individual who weds the eldest daughter, esp...
12. volume ii, note 5.—ED.The bison dance, _Ta-nuguh-wat-che_.—The performers in this dance are painted black, and are naked from the waist upward, with the exception of the head dress, which is composed...
10. volume v, note 94.—ED.At the distance of the journey of one day and a half from Knife-creek,[14] which divides the larger and smaller towns of the Minnetarees from each other, are situate two conical...
1. Volume XVA Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and...
8. CHAPTER IX [VII of Vol. II]—Sandstone Formation at2. Part II of James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition7. CHAPTER VII [V of Vol. II]—Journey by Land from St.4. CHAPTER II [XII of Vol. I]—Diseases. Medical and Surgical3. CHAPTER I [XI of Vol. I, original ed.]—Further Account5. CHAPTER III [I of Vol. II]—Death. Mourning for the6. CHAPTER V [III of Vol. II]—Tribes and Bands. Fabulous