History of St. Paul and Vicinity: A Chronicle of Progress and a Narrative Account of the Industries, Institutions, and People of the City and Its Tributary Territory, Volume 1 |
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History of St. Paul and Vicinity: A Chronicle of Progress and a Narrative ... Henry Anson Castle No preview available - 2018 |
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acres Alexander Ramsey Anthony appointed April arrived Association August Bank bluff boat building built capital capitol Captain Carver's Cave cent Chicago chief citizens clerk Club Colonel commerce committee Company court December depot died district east Edmund Rice election erected established February feet fire Fort Ridgely Fort Snelling Franklin Steele Governor H. H. Sibley Henry hundred Indians industry Jackson street January John July June Lake Lake Pepin land Larpenteur legislature Lieutenant Louis manufacturing March mayor Mendota miles Minne Minneapolis Minnesota Minnesota river Mississippi Mississippi river Nathan Myrick northwest November October officers Ojibways opened organized Pacific Park Paul Pioneer postmaster postoffice Prairie du Chien president railroad railway Ramsey county Regiment Rice river road Robert senate September settlers Sioux Snelling soldiers steamboat Stillwater territory Third street tion town trade treasurer Union United Wabasha William Wisconsin
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Page 10 - The dead of other days ? — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion ? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them — a disciplined and populous race Heaped with long toil the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Page 187 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Page 318 - And minds have there been nurtured, whose control Is felt even in their nation's destiny; Men who swayed senates with a statesman's soul, And looked on armies with a leader's eye; Names that adorn and dignify the scroll, Whose leaves contain their country's history, And tales of love and war — listen to one Of the Green-Mountaineer — the Stark of Bennington.
Page 447 - Canada, acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to by nine States.
Page 22 - ZM Pike, of the army of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of said tribe, have agreed to the following articles, which, when ratified and approved of by the proper authority, shall be binding on both parties : ART.
Page 197 - The world has never before seen social phenomena at all comparable with those presented in the United States. A society spreading over enormous tracts while still preserving its political continuity is a new thing. This progressive incorporation of vast bodies of immigrants of various bloods has never occurred on such a scale before. Large empires composed of different peoples have, in previous cases, been formed by conquest and annexation. Then your immense plexus of railways and telegraphs tends...
Page 120 - My present residence is on the utmost verge of civilization in the northwestern part of the United States, within a few miles of the principal village of white men in the Territory that, we suppose, will bear the name of Minnesota, which some would render 'clear-water,
Page 16 - ABOUT thirty miles below the Falls of St. Anthony, at which I arrived the tenth day after I left Lake Pepin, is a remarkable cave of an amazing depth. The Indians term it Wakon-teebe, that is, the dwelling of the Great Spirit.
Page 18 - The Indians say they have no knowledge of any such chiefs as those who have signed the grant to Carver, either amongst the Sioux of the River or the Sioux of the Plain.
Page 197 - From biological truths it is to be inferred that the eventual mixture of the allied varieties of the Aryan race forming the population, will produce a more powerful type of man than has hitherto existed...