A History of the American People, Volume 7Harper & brothers, 1918 - United States |
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... SettlEMENT OF THE Oregon TERRITORY . - From an original broadside , 1831 , in the New York Public Library WILLIAM CLARK . From an engraving by S. Hollyer after the painting by Charles Wilson Peale . Clark was ap- pointed a member of ...
... SettlEMENT OF THE Oregon TERRITORY . - From an original broadside , 1831 , in the New York Public Library WILLIAM CLARK . From an engraving by S. Hollyer after the painting by Charles Wilson Peale . Clark was ap- pointed a member of ...
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... settlement of the MODEL OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON LOCOMOTIVE . BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND . 1826 West held back as much as possible . So long as land was to be had there almost for the mere asking , at no cost except that of the journey ...
... settlement of the MODEL OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON LOCOMOTIVE . BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND . 1826 West held back as much as possible . So long as land was to be had there almost for the mere asking , at no cost except that of the journey ...
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... settlement . Railways seemed to spring suddenly into existence , to serve the same end . In 1830 there were but twenty- three miles of rail in the country : a short road here and there for cars drawn by horses . But presently steam was ...
... settlement . Railways seemed to spring suddenly into existence , to serve the same end . In 1830 there were but twenty- three miles of rail in the country : a short road here and there for cars drawn by horses . But presently steam was ...
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... settlement , the attention of think- ing men was set upon new thoughts in that day of change . The year 1830 had seen political and social revolution sweep to and fro , hardly to be checked , upon the troubled European stage . England ...
... settlement , the attention of think- ing men was set upon new thoughts in that day of change . The year 1830 had seen political and social revolution sweep to and fro , hardly to be checked , upon the troubled European stage . England ...
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... settlement were no longer questions of banking and currency , or even questions of tariff , but the fundamental in- stitutional choices of mere growth : the questions which went inevitably with the setting up of every new State and the ...
... settlement were no longer questions of banking and currency , or even questions of tariff , but the fundamental in- stitutional choices of mere growth : the questions which went inevitably with the setting up of every new State and the ...
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