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Page 18
... hundred miles off , for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease ; But He where he met the individual man , showed himself as kind as mortal can . · freeborn forest found and kept them free , The And fresh as is a torrent ...
... hundred miles off , for a station Where there were fewer houses and more ease ; But He where he met the individual man , showed himself as kind as mortal can . · freeborn forest found and kept them free , The And fresh as is a torrent ...
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... hundred of the best riflemen were beaten with terrible slaughter Licks , in w by a great force of Indians from the lakes , Boone of Kentucky commanded the left wing . Leading his men , rifle in hand , he pushed back and overthrew the ...
... hundred of the best riflemen were beaten with terrible slaughter Licks , in w by a great force of Indians from the lakes , Boone of Kentucky commanded the left wing . Leading his men , rifle in hand , he pushed back and overthrew the ...
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... hundred and fifty down backwoods riflemen . In May they started the Ohio in flatboats to undertake the allotted Falls of the Ohio , where Clark founded hamlet , which has since become the great city of Louisville . rowed downstream to ...
... hundred and fifty down backwoods riflemen . In May they started the Ohio in flatboats to undertake the allotted Falls of the Ohio , where Clark founded hamlet , which has since become the great city of Louisville . rowed downstream to ...
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... hundred - British regulars , French partizans , and Indians . The Vincennes Creoles refused to fight gainst the British , and the American officer who ing men - year fight- 38 HERO TALES had been sent thither by Clark had GEORGE ROGERS ...
... hundred - British regulars , French partizans , and Indians . The Vincennes Creoles refused to fight gainst the British , and the American officer who ing men - year fight- 38 HERO TALES had been sent thither by Clark had GEORGE ROGERS ...
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... hundred and seventy all told , and set out for Vincennes . easy enough , for they Illinois prairies , broken At first the journey passed across the was snowy elk , buffalo , and deer for food , there being no by great reaches of lofty ...
... hundred and seventy all told , and set out for Vincennes . easy enough , for they Illinois prairies , broken At first the journey passed across the was snowy elk , buffalo , and deer for food , there being no by great reaches of lofty ...
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