Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 1Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American educational alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... further ex- pansion to the Pacific . While the Louisiana purchase was under consideration , the Lewis and Clark expedition was being planned , and by 1805 the explorers had reached the headwaters of the Missouri and followed the ...
... further ex- pansion to the Pacific . While the Louisiana purchase was under consideration , the Lewis and Clark expedition was being planned , and by 1805 the explorers had reached the headwaters of the Missouri and followed the ...
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... Further north the Cascade Range has the cul- minating peaks of Mt. Shasta , 14,380 feet ; Mt. Baker , 10,827 feet ; Mt. Adams , 12,470 feet , and Mt. Rainier , 14,363 feet . Alaska is situated in the northwest corner of the American ...
... Further north the Cascade Range has the cul- minating peaks of Mt. Shasta , 14,380 feet ; Mt. Baker , 10,827 feet ; Mt. Adams , 12,470 feet , and Mt. Rainier , 14,363 feet . Alaska is situated in the northwest corner of the American ...
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... further north . north . The North Pacific group of peoples , concerning whom we owe so much to the investigations of Dr. F. Boas , are socially and religiously of great interest ( e . g . such institutions as totemism , the potlatch ...
... further north . north . The North Pacific group of peoples , concerning whom we owe so much to the investigations of Dr. F. Boas , are socially and religiously of great interest ( e . g . such institutions as totemism , the potlatch ...
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... further north ( e . g . the Blackfeet ) seem later on to have planted much of it , while among the Iroquoian peo- ples we find the Tionontati , of what is now the Province of Ontario , early known as the " Nation du Petun " ( " Tobacco ...
... further north ( e . g . the Blackfeet ) seem later on to have planted much of it , while among the Iroquoian peo- ples we find the Tionontati , of what is now the Province of Ontario , early known as the " Nation du Petun " ( " Tobacco ...
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... further north the Christians were not above " sustain- ing themselves " sometimes by plun- dering the Indian " barns , " as we read in the early colonial records of New England and elsewhere - regu- lar expeditions being sent out on oc ...
... further north the Christians were not above " sustain- ing themselves " sometimes by plun- dering the Indian " barns , " as we read in the early colonial records of New England and elsewhere - regu- lar expeditions being sent out on oc ...
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