Personal Recollections of Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil WarWerner Company, 1897 - 591 pages |
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... Kansas - Drouth - Locusts March Under a Burning Sun Into the Country of the Hostiles - Description of the Country - Gypsum Belt - On the Indian Trail -The Indians at Bay - An Exciting Engagement - A Hot Pursuit - Apostrophe to the Red ...
... Kansas - Drouth - Locusts March Under a Burning Sun Into the Country of the Hostiles - Description of the Country - Gypsum Belt - On the Indian Trail -The Indians at Bay - An Exciting Engagement - A Hot Pursuit - Apostrophe to the Red ...
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... Kansas Commissioners - Arapahoe County - Overland Communication Vice in the Early Times- A Historic Tree - The First Railroad The Den- ver of To - day . - Joseph Smith - CHAPTER XXVIII . SALT LAKE CITY AND THE MORMONS . The Exodus The ...
... Kansas Commissioners - Arapahoe County - Overland Communication Vice in the Early Times- A Historic Tree - The First Railroad The Den- ver of To - day . - Joseph Smith - CHAPTER XXVIII . SALT LAKE CITY AND THE MORMONS . The Exodus The ...
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... of to - day . What was known as the Kansas Border War , and a little later the ill - advised attempt of John Brown at Harper's Ferry , were symptoms of the feverish condition of the body politic . GENERAL NELSON A. MILES . 23.
... of to - day . What was known as the Kansas Border War , and a little later the ill - advised attempt of John Brown at Harper's Ferry , were symptoms of the feverish condition of the body politic . GENERAL NELSON A. MILES . 23.
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... Kansas , on what was then known as our " Western Frontier . " Thenceforward I continued to serve west of the Missouri until the fall of 1890 , a period of nearly twenty - two years . During this period I have been an interested witness ...
... Kansas , on what was then known as our " Western Frontier . " Thenceforward I continued to serve west of the Missouri until the fall of 1890 , a period of nearly twenty - two years . During this period I have been an interested witness ...
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... Kansas , through millions of buffaloes , and into the foothills above what is now the city of Pueblo , Colorado . He first saw , far away , the mountain that bears his name , November 15 , 1806 , and it was in sight of his party through ...
... Kansas , through millions of buffaloes , and into the foothills above what is now the city of Pueblo , Colorado . He first saw , far away , the mountain that bears his name , November 15 , 1806 , and it was in sight of his party through ...
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