Westward Expansion: A History of the American FrontierMacmillan, 1949 - 873 pages |
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... houses at Windsor and Wethers- field and a settlement was begun on the site of present Hartford before an extreme winter drove most of the pioneers back to the comparative com- fort of Boston . Only one settlement survived : a small ...
... houses at Windsor and Wethers- field and a settlement was begun on the site of present Hartford before an extreme winter drove most of the pioneers back to the comparative com- fort of Boston . Only one settlement survived : a small ...
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... houses . Often a pioneer family lived for days with horses , pigs , calves , and chickens cooped within a crowded sod house while the thermometer rested at twenty or thirty degrees below zero . Although these intolerable conditions did ...
... houses . Often a pioneer family lived for days with horses , pigs , calves , and chickens cooped within a crowded sod house while the thermometer rested at twenty or thirty degrees below zero . Although these intolerable conditions did ...
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... house of the state legislature , placed five of them in the House of Representatives , and sent the bewhiskered William A. Peffer to the Senate . In Nebraska independents won both legis- lative houses and one of the State's three ...
... house of the state legislature , placed five of them in the House of Representatives , and sent the bewhiskered William A. Peffer to the Senate . In Nebraska independents won both legis- lative houses and one of the State's three ...
Contents
SECTION I | 13 |
Europes First Frontier 14921615 | 15 |
The Spanish in Eastern North America 15131590 | 19 |
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