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... hundred and eighteen pages , and has become so excessively rare that a single copy has been sold for one hundred and fifty dollars . It has been several times republished , and some of the reprints have also become very rare . The ...
... hundred and eighteen pages , and has become so excessively rare that a single copy has been sold for one hundred and fifty dollars . It has been several times republished , and some of the reprints have also become very rare . The ...
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... hundred miles into the undulating lands and plains of Central and West Kentucky ; and the latter bordered at last by the fertile valleys of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers , which lie at an altitude of but three hundred feet above ...
... hundred miles into the undulating lands and plains of Central and West Kentucky ; and the latter bordered at last by the fertile valleys of the Mississippi and lower Ohio rivers , which lie at an altitude of but three hundred feet above ...
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... hundred of these , who had rendez- voused at Fort Pitt , and marched down the Ohio . General Andrew Lewis , at the head of eleven hundred veteran frontiersmen , forming the left wing * Lulbegrud is not of Indian origin . In Book No. 1 ...
... hundred of these , who had rendez- voused at Fort Pitt , and marched down the Ohio . General Andrew Lewis , at the head of eleven hundred veteran frontiersmen , forming the left wing * Lulbegrud is not of Indian origin . In Book No. 1 ...
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... hundred warriors , painted and armed for war , rendezvoused at the towns on the Scioto . The recent individual massacres in Kentucky and elsewhere were but the isolated raindrops that precede the emptying of overhanging clouds . 1Amid ...
... hundred warriors , painted and armed for war , rendezvoused at the towns on the Scioto . The recent individual massacres in Kentucky and elsewhere were but the isolated raindrops that precede the emptying of overhanging clouds . 1Amid ...
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... hundred and sixty , and the breadth one hundred and fifty feet . " The main houses were of hewn logs , and bullet - proof . They were square in form and two stories in height , and one of these projected from each corner of the fort ...
... hundred and sixty , and the breadth one hundred and fifty feet . " The main houses were of hewn logs , and bullet - proof . They were square in form and two stories in height , and one of these projected from each corner of the fort ...
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