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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 13: Black ascendancy. (search)
h and light, and some are led by instincts and emotions tending to the nurture of life. Men are often swayed by higher instincts than the love of meat and warmth. What forces drove the Crusaders to Syria and the Pilgrims to New England? Not the want of food and drink. What passion led the Jesuits to Paraguay, the Franciscans to Mexico? Not the desire to lodge in huts and cover the body with antelope skins. What impulse carries the Russ to Troitza, the Moor to Mecca, and the Mormon to Salt Lake? You think the coloured people are moving from Kentucky and Virginia into South Carolina? Not a doubt of it, says a journalist of whom we seek an answer. Always on the road, in my vocation, I see the files and squads, full-blood, mulattoes, and quadroons, all creeping from the North. Sickness thins the number; for the darkies are rotten sheep, and perish on the road. More die than reach our soil. What are the facts? Are South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi, chiefly Sou
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 19: our Yellow brother. (search)
Los Angeles; caring, it would seem, for neither heat nor cold, neither drought nor rain, neither good food nor bad, neither kindness nor unkindness, so that he can earn money and save money. At Evanston, an eating station on the heights above Salt Lake, we have a troop of Chinese waiters, dressed in short white smocks like girls, having smooth round faces like girls, and soft and nimble ways like girls. After passing Salt Lake we find these Asiatics increase in number. In and out, among tSalt Lake we find these Asiatics increase in number. In and out, among the valleys at Cape Horn, Toano, Indian Creek, and Halleck, they are settling down in hut and ranch. We find them in Copper Canon and along the Palisades; we hear of them in the White Pine Country, in Mountain District, at Tuscarora, Cornu-opeia, and Eureka. They go anywhere, do anything. One of the race comes up to me at Elko with a bit of paper in his hand, on which is written Lee Wang, antelope ranch, White Pine country. Lee Wang cannot speak a word of English, yet he is going up alone in
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 24: a celestial village. (search)
Like Paddy Blake and Juan Chico, Hop Lee and Hong Chi appear to be social animals, who love to jostle in a crowd, and lodge by preference in a narrow court. Like many of their Irish and Mexican peers, they seem to delight in close alleys, and enjoy abominable smells. When they might camp out in the open, they burrow in the earth, under the houses of great cities, hiding their heads in drains and vaults, in sinks and sewers. They make a rookery in the heart of every city they invade. At Salt Lake they huddle round the marketplace; at Virginia they cower about the mines. In San Francisco they have taken up their rest in the oldest quarter. When they reach New York they will settle on Five Points; when they arrive in London they will occupy Seven Dials. If a great city has a low and filthy section, the celestials sniff it out, crowd into it, and by their presence make that low and filthy place their own. It seems to them a natural process. When they get to Rome, they will drive
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
e had met. With W. F. Cody, the last of the Buffalo Bills, he wrote The great Salt Lake Trail (1898), the trail being the one from Omaha up the Platte and to Salt LaSalt Lake by way of Echo Canyon. The Santa Fe Trail has also been perpetuated in poetry, by Sharlot M. Hall with a vivid poem of that title in Out West (1903), and the modold regions, and scenes by the way (1849). The gold seekers got as far as Salt Lake over the Oregon Trail by Bear River; or from Ft. Bridger by the new way Hastihad found a little farther south, and more direct, through Echo Canyon. From Salt Lake the chief trail west led down the Humboldt River to the Sierra and over that ss. Gunnison was killed by Indians at Sevier Lake. He had been stationed at Salt Lake when assisting Stansbury, and while there made a study of Mormonism, The Mormons, or the latter day Saints in the Valley of the great Salt Lake (1852). Mrs. Gunnison believed that the Mormons had instigated the murder of her husband, and Judg
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, 185 Examiner (San Fraicisco), 329 Examiner and journal of political Economy the, 438 Excuse Me, 295 Exodus for Oregon, 55 Expedition of the Donner party and its tragic fate, the, 146 Exploration and Survey of the Valley of great Salt Lake, 150-1 Exploration of the Colorado River of the West, 158 Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 136 Explorations and adventures in Equatorial Africa, 163 Exposition, or a New theory of animal Magnetism, 526 Extermination of the Ame412, 523, 541 More, Henry, 228 More, P. E., 129, 491 Morgan, A. T., 352 Morgan, Lewis H., 196 Morgan, William, 521 Moriscoes in Spain, the, 194 Mormons, the, 142 Mormons, or the latter day Saints in the Valley of the great Salt Lake, the, 151 Morning call (San Francisco), 4 Morris, Clara, 271 Morris, G. S., 239 n. Morse, Jedidiah, 401, 431, 546, 54 Morse, S. F. B., 345, 348 Morte d'arthur, 17 Morton, Martha, 290 Morton, Nathaniel, 533 Morton oder die Gr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1865. (search)
pressing deep regret. He returned to New York, and devoted himself to his Greek and Latin. While thus engaged, it was proposed to him, in the spring of 1862, to join a party of scientific men in a trip across the Western prairies, by way of Salt Lake. The prospect of such a journey was very fascinating, and the advantages of it seemed to his friends very great. He was allowed, therefore, to undertake it; but only upon the express stipulation that he was to return and resume his studies bs it, Now I shall certainly go. In another letter speaking of the late battles and of his sad loss he writes, Since then I have wanted doubly to go, and I wish—how I wish—father would let me. At Fort Bridger he learned that, if he went to Salt Lake, it was doubtful whether he could return by the day fixed. He was within a few days of the most interesting object of their journey, but the opportunities for returning were uncertain. He therefore gave up the trip, and turned his face eastw
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
, A6; 141, F14 Skirmishes, June 21, 1864 83, 8 Salem Church, Va.: Battle of, May 3, 1863 41, 1 Salina, Kans. 119, 1; 161, C2 Saline, Indian Territory 119, 1; 160, E8 Saline Bayou, La. 52, 1; 155, C1, 155, D2, 155, F4, 155, G4; 158, E14 Saline River, Ark. 47, 1; 135-A; 154, C2, 135-A; 154, E3 Salineville, Ohio. 94, 4; 140, A9 Salisbury, N. C. 76, 2; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 142, E13; 171 Salkehatchie River, S. C. 76, 2; 80, 3 Salt Lake, Utah Ter. 120, 1 Salt Lick, W. Va. 140, G12 Salt Pond Mountain, Va. 141, F12 Salt River, Mo. 152, A6, 152, B4, 152, C5 Salt Springs, Ga. 57, 1; 58, 2; 60, 1 Saltville, Va. 118, 1; 135-A; 141, H9; 142, A9 Salt Works, Ky. 118, 1; 141, C5 Saluria, Tex. 26, 1; 65, 10; 171 Salyersville, Ky. 118, 1; 141, E5 San Antonio, Tex. 43, 8; 54, 1; 135-A; 171 San Bernardino, Cal. 120, 1; 134, 1; 171 San Bois Creek, Indian Territory 1
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ey, and brother of Daniel M. Forney, who represented North Carolina in Congress. His mother was a daughter of Hon. Daniel Hoke, also of Lincoln county. Young Forney, after going through his preparatory course, was appointed to the United States military academy in 1848, and in 1852 was graduated as brevet second lieutenant in the Seventh infantry. He served in garrison in Kentucky and on frontier duty in Indian Territory, and accompanied Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston on the expedition to Salt Lake in 1858. In 1860 he was first lieutenant and instructor of tactics at West Point. Foreseeing the coming struggle between the North and the South, he resigned in December, 1860, and, going to Montgomery, offered his services to Governor Moore. He was commissioned colonel of artillery in the State forces and sent to take command at Pensacola. On March 16, 1861, he was promoted to captain in the regular army of the Confederacy and made a staff officer by General Bragg. When the Tenth Ala
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], An heroic wife. (search)
The Pony Express. St. Joseph, Nov. 24. --The extra Pony express, which left Fort Kearney on Wednesday, November 7, with the election news, arrived in Salt Lake City in three days and four hours--distance, nine hundred and fifty miles. The last forty-five miles was made in three hours and ten minutes, and this forty-five miles of the route is the most mountainous of the whole road. The regular Pony express, leaving St. Joseph on the 8th inst., arrived at Salt Lake, distance twelve hundred miles, in four days and twenty-three hours. It had been snowing for thirty-six hours when the pony left Salt Lake City.
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
all, the movements are not considered extraordinary. The Breckinridge State Convention will meet at Sacramento on the 11th of June. The Union Convention meets at the same place on the 18th, the Republicans on the 18th and the Douglas Democrate on the 18th of July. Senator Latham continues his tour through the State, making Union speeches. The Overland Telegraph Expedition left Sacramento on the 27th for Carson Valley. At this point they are to commence laying wires towards Salt Lake. The expedition numbers twenty-two head of oxen, twenty-six wagons and fifty men. Commercial. There is a strong speculative feeling throughout the market, with a very active business and many large transactions. From Oregon. Dates from Portland, Oregon, received by overland mail, are to the 21st of May. Ex-Senator Lane was in a critical condition from a wound at Roseburg, and could not be moved. He was not out of danger, though his friends were hopeful. He was sho
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