The History of Kentucky: From Its Earliest Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Date |
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... side , from Alabama to Pennsylvania , and the Cumberland range in the rear , stood like forbidding barriers between the colonial settle- ments on the Atlantic slope , and the mysterious wilderness lying far away toward the sunset ...
... side , from Alabama to Pennsylvania , and the Cumberland range in the rear , stood like forbidding barriers between the colonial settle- ments on the Atlantic slope , and the mysterious wilderness lying far away toward the sunset ...
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... side of the camp - cabin . Poles . were cut and laid across the top , and the frame - work was finished . The roof and sides were next covered with bark stripped from adjacent trees , or with blankets and the skins of wild beasts slain ...
... side of the camp - cabin . Poles . were cut and laid across the top , and the frame - work was finished . The roof and sides were next covered with bark stripped from adjacent trees , or with blankets and the skins of wild beasts slain ...
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... side of the Ohio a numerous and powerful people , with whom their tribes engaged in destructive war . After much fighting , these primitive people were finally defeated in a great battle near the falls of the Ohio river . The remnant of ...
... side of the Ohio a numerous and powerful people , with whom their tribes engaged in destructive war . After much fighting , these primitive people were finally defeated in a great battle near the falls of the Ohio river . The remnant of ...
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... sides of the Ohio river . but mainly on the north side , from the Miami to the Hockhocking . One or two traces of villages only , on the south side , and below the Big Sandy , are pointed out , and these of vague uncertainty . A warpath ...
... sides of the Ohio river . but mainly on the north side , from the Miami to the Hockhocking . One or two traces of villages only , on the south side , and below the Big Sandy , are pointed out , and these of vague uncertainty . A warpath ...
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... side , and their bodies pushing him to one side or the other , while he aimed to draw himself within his smallest dimensions . After all was over , and the lucky escape made , Adams crawled down from his perch , and attempted to ...
... side , and their bodies pushing him to one side or the other , while he aimed to draw himself within his smallest dimensions . After all was over , and the lucky escape made , Adams crawled down from his perch , and attempted to ...
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