Pa-ha-sa-pah: Or, The Black Hills of South Dakota. A Complete History of the Gold and Wonder-land of the Dakotas, from the Remotest Date Up to the Present ...Nixon-Jones Printing Company, 1895 - 645 pages |
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... camp . " The Crows did not tarry long before they all gathered together around me , and loaded me with marks of kind- ness . The social Calumet , emblem of savage brotherhood and union , went round that evening so frequently , that it ...
... camp . " The Crows did not tarry long before they all gathered together around me , and loaded me with marks of kind- ness . The social Calumet , emblem of savage brotherhood and union , went round that evening so frequently , that it ...
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... camp to assemble , that they might hear for themselves the words of truth . I pitched my lodge on a large field , in the midst of the camp , and there three thousand savages , including the sick , who were carried in skins , gathered ...
... camp to assemble , that they might hear for themselves the words of truth . I pitched my lodge on a large field , in the midst of the camp , and there three thousand savages , including the sick , who were carried in skins , gathered ...
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... camp was the first to reply : Black - gown , ' said he , I understand you . You have said what is true . Your words have passed from my ears into my heart . I wish all could comprehend them . ' Whereon , addressing himself to the Crows ...
... camp was the first to reply : Black - gown , ' said he , I understand you . You have said what is true . Your words have passed from my ears into my heart . I wish all could comprehend them . ' Whereon , addressing himself to the Crows ...
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... camp , proclaiming in a loud voice the circumstances of the com- bat and the tragic end of the two brave men . A gloomy silence prevailed everywhere , only interrupted by a band of mourners , whose appearance alone was enough to make ...
... camp , proclaiming in a loud voice the circumstances of the com- bat and the tragic end of the two brave men . A gloomy silence prevailed everywhere , only interrupted by a band of mourners , whose appearance alone was enough to make ...
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... Camp- bell , as given in Washington Irving's work " Bonneville's Adventures . " This traveler was on one occasion hos- pitably entertained by the celebrated Crow chief , Arapooish , in whose tent he had deposited a large bundle of ...
... Camp- bell , as given in Washington Irving's work " Bonneville's Adventures . " This traveler was on one occasion hos- pitably entertained by the celebrated Crow chief , Arapooish , in whose tent he had deposited a large bundle of ...
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animals arrived arrow August Bear Butte Belle Fourche Black Hills Blackfeet blackgown buffalo called camp Cheyenne chief City command creek cretaceous crossed Crows cupel Custer Custer City Dakota dance Deadwood deposits distance east enemies expedition Father DeSmet feet fire fork Fort Abraham Lincoln Fort Laramie Fort Meade four gold grass ground hand head Horn horses hundred hunting Indians Jesuits Joe Riggs journey killed land Laramie lodge Louis miles miners mining mission missionary Missouri river mouth night Niobrara party passed Peak pine pipe portion prairie reached region remained rock Rocky Mountains sandstone savage says scalp sent side silver Sioux skins smoke soon South Dakota Spirit spring squaws stones stream territory thence tion town trail traveled treaty tribes valley village wagons wakan Wakinyan warriors wild wood Yellowstone
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Page 566 - ... an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession 139 of the vein or lode claim...
Page 562 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 578 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 559 - Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required thereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, and in two newspapers published at Manila, one in the English language and the other in the Spanish language, to...
Page 552 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 559 - On each claim located after the tenth of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars worth of labor shall be performed or Improvements made during each year.
Page 98 - Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest ; And the forest's life was in it, All its mystery and its magic, All the lightness of the birch-tree, All the toughness of the cedar, All the larch's supple sinews; And it floated on the river ; Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily.
Page 554 - Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim...
Page 562 - Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication, it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim, and all proceedings, except the publication of notice and making and filing of the affidavit thereof, shall be stayed until the controversy shall have been settled or decided by a Court of competent jurisdiction, or the adverse claim waived. It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty...
Page 98 - Hedgehog! I will make a necklace of them, Make a girdle for my beauty, And two stars to deck her bosom!" From a hollow tree the Hedgehog With his sleepy eyes looked at him, Shot his shining quills, like arrows, Saying with a drowsy murmur, Through the tangle of his whiskers, "Take my quills, O Hiawatha!