 | Charles Clinton Nourse - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 46 pages
...rising ground at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight...of occupation pressed forward, torch in hand, with axe and hatchet blazing lines with all manner of corners and angles. When daylight came and revealed... | |
 | Charles Clinton Nourse - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 52 pages
...at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30tb of ApriJ, these were lighted, and when the midnight hour arrived...of occupation pressed forward, torch in hand, with axe and hatchet blazing lines with all manner of corners and angles. When daylight came and revealed... | |
 | Benton County (Iowa) - 1878 - 648 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o' clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight...of occupation pressed forward, torch in hand, with axe and hatchet, blazing lines with all manner of curves and angles. When daylight came and revealed... | |
 | Monroe County (Iowa) - 1878 - 496 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight...of occupation pressed forward, torch in hand, with axe and hatchet, blazing lines with all manner of curves and angles. When daylight came and revealed... | |
 | Black Hawk County (Iowa) - 1878 - 594 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30ih of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight...announced by the discharge of firearms. The night wag dark, but this army of occupali-'ti pressed forward, torch in hand, with axe and hatchet, blazing... | |
 | Delaware County (Iowa) - 1878 - 696 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight hour arrived, it was announced hy the discharge of firearms. The night was dark, but this army of occupation pressed forward, torch... | |
 | Appanoose County (Iowa) - 1878 - 618 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight hour arrived, it wai announced by the discharge of firearms. The night was dark, but this army of occupation pressed... | |
 | Cedar County (Iowa) - 1878 - 736 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30ih of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight hour arrived, it via announced by the discharge of firearms. The night was dark, but this army of occupation pressed... | |
 | Iowa - 1878 - 842 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight hour arrived, it wai announced by the discharge of firearms. The night was dark, but this army of occupation pressed... | |
 | Jones County (Iowa) - 1879 - 686 pages
...rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30lh of April, these were lighted, and when the midnight...of occupation pressed forward, torch in hand, with axe and hatchet, blazing lines with all manner of curves and angles. When daylight came and revealed... | |
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To aid them in making out their claims when the hour should arrive, the settlers had placed piles of dry wood on the rising ground, at convenient distances, and a short time before twelve o'clock of the night of the 30th of April, these were lighted,... 
