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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
[251] Written from the pronunciation of a Ki̍ckapu. These Indians speak the same language as the Saukis and Foxes. According to Gallatin (_ibid._, p. 62), they do not now number...
26. CHAPTER XXXIIIThe Erie Canal--Lockport--Rochester--Perinton on the Irondequot--Clyde--Montezuma Marshes--The River Seneca--Syracuse--Saline Tract near Salina--Remains of the Onondago Nation--...
8. CHAPTER XXVIII[1Present State of Fort Clarke--Mr. Mc Kenzie's Journey--Peace between the Mandans and the Yanktonans--Ravages of the Cholera on the Lower Missouri--Mato-Topé--Sih-Chida--Return o...
15. CHAPTER XXXViolent Storms and Bad Weather--Arikkara Villages--Meeting with two Fur Boats--Fort Pièrre, and our Stay there--The Mauvaises Terres--Sioux Agency--Cedar Island--Punca Island--M...
12. CHAPTER XXIXIncrease of the Cold in the beginning of January--The Arrival of our People from Picotte--Parhelia--Changes of Temperature--Sih-Chida's Prayer--My Thermometer stolen--Reconcilia...
18. CHAPTER XXXIOn the afternoon of the 18th of May, I left the Cantonment of Leavenworth amid a very heavy rain, which continuing on the 19th I lay-to, and made my people light a fire on shore...
29. volume iv, p. 325, note 209.[272] The first two lists mentioned by Mallery are: that of William Dunbar, American Philosophical Society, _Transactions_, vi; and the one, probably by T. Say, in James's _Long...
23. CHAPTER XXXIIVoyage on the Ohio Canal--Chillicothe--Circleville--Licking Summit, the Highest Part of the Canal--Hebron--Fall of the Canal at Akron--Cleveland--Lake Erie; its Navigation--Buff...
28. volume v, pp. 191, 192.This sign language has been treated in various works. Say has given noteworthy vocabularies in Edward James's _Account of the Expedition of Major Long to the Rocky Mountains_. T...
24. volume xix, p. 151, note 22.--ED.[151] Dr. Zina Pitcher (1797-1872) was a graduate (1822) of Middlebury College, Vermont. He entered the army (1822) as assistant surgeon, becoming surgeon with rank of major in...
25. volume viii, p. 46, note 9.Tonawanda Creek rises in Wyoming County, New York, flows north through Genesee, and, turning west, forms the boundary between Niagara and Erie counties, entering Niagara River o...
20. chapter xv. Consult this account, with accompanying notes.--ED.[120] Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was born in Berlin, but early invited to Russia to assume charge of scientific explorations in that empire. His _Bemerkungen auf einer Reise...
11. volume xxiii, p. 334.--ED.[19] Garreau settled among the Arikara Indians at an early day (about 1785), being probably the first white settler in South Dakota. Lewis and Clark found him in the Arikara vil...
19. volume xxii, p. 242, note 183.Marion, on the southern (not northern) bank of the Missouri, is a village in Cole County, in a township of the same name. It was platted at Moniteau Rock, below a creek of the s...
21. volume iii, p. 31, note 8.--ED.[140] The highest Indian mounds of the state are found in the vicinity of Vincennes. For a critical discussion, see E. T. Cox, "Archæology," in Indiana Historical Society _Publi...
10. volume xxii, p. 271, note 226.--ED.[10] Honoré Picotte was a French-Canadian who came to the Missouri about 1820, and entered the Columbia Fur Company. Afterwards (1827-30) he was a member of the French Fur Compa...
6. CHAPTER XXXIII--Return on the Erie Canal and the River(b) Vocabularies: Arikkaras, Assiniboins, Blackfeet, Chayennes, Crows, Dacota Yanktonans, Dacota Tetons, Fall Indians, Flatheads, Kickapus, Konsa, Krih, Kutanä, Mandans, Minnita...
17. volume xxii, p. 264, note 217.--ED.[88] For the rivers mentioned, see our volume vi, pp. 72, 73, notes 23, 24. Both Solomon's Island and Wolf Creek are mentioned by Lewis and Clark (_Original Journals_, i, pp. 72...
9. chapter xxviii of the original London edition (1843).--ED.[3] Simon Bellehumeur, probably this interpreter's father, was in 1804 a North West Company's voyageur on upper Red River. One of the same name also acted as express and scout i...
22. volume xiii p. 61, note 35.--ED.[148] Richard, a younger son of Robert Owen, was born at New Lanark, Scotland, in 1810. He was educated chiefly in Switzerland, and came to New Harmony (1828) fresh from his lit...
1. Volume XXIVA 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...
14. volume xxiii, pp. 314, 315.--ED.7. PART III, AND APPENDIX, OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF2. PART III OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED'S, TRAVELS IN THE16. volume xiv, pp. 258-262, where Big Elk holds council with the officers4. CHAPTER XXXI--Voyage from the Cantonment of Leavenworth5. CHAPTER XXXII--Passage of the Ohio Canal and Lake3. CHAPTER XXIX--Continuation of our Winter Residence13. volume xxv.--ED.