Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: ReminiscencesMoore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 - 640 pages |
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... west . The country was new , sparsely settled , and being on the western frontier , the towns and villages were filled with Indians , trading their peltries , wild game and moccasins ornamented with the quills of the porcupine , with ...
... west . The country was new , sparsely settled , and being on the western frontier , the towns and villages were filled with Indians , trading their peltries , wild game and moccasins ornamented with the quills of the porcupine , with ...
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... West naturally came up , and with it the practice of medicine . My brother was a physician of great experience and of a high reputation — a student of Dr. Chapman , and a graduate of the Pennsylvania University . " Brother Oliver , I ...
... West naturally came up , and with it the practice of medicine . My brother was a physician of great experience and of a high reputation — a student of Dr. Chapman , and a graduate of the Pennsylvania University . " Brother Oliver , I ...
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... west side of the public square , with only one window , and a pane of glass out of the lower sash . I rose with my back to the window , stated the issue , and in a loud voice , " Gentle- men of the jury , the Court will tell you that ...
... west side of the public square , with only one window , and a pane of glass out of the lower sash . I rose with my back to the window , stated the issue , and in a loud voice , " Gentle- men of the jury , the Court will tell you that ...
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... west , including what are now the counties of Rush , Shelby , Johnson , Morgan , Marion and Hamilton , -Christopher Ladd and William Eagan , while paddling their canoe above the bluffs on White river , observed large collections of ...
... west , including what are now the counties of Rush , Shelby , Johnson , Morgan , Marion and Hamilton , -Christopher Ladd and William Eagan , while paddling their canoe above the bluffs on White river , observed large collections of ...
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... west of town , and having no horse , walked down early in the morning , expecting to get one there . Crume and his friends kindly offered to procure one , and borrowed of Robert Griffis a very small jackass . The preacher mounted when ...
... west of town , and having no horse , walked down early in the morning , expecting to get one there . Crume and his friends kindly offered to procure one , and borrowed of Robert Griffis a very small jackass . The preacher mounted when ...
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