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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mennonites. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Militia, United States (search)
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Pawnee Indians,
A warlike tribe of North American Indians, which lived in villages of earth-covered logs, on the borders of the Platte River, in Nebraska and Kansas.
They appear to be of the Illinois family, divided into several bands, and were continually at war with the Sioux and other surrounding tribes.
Hostile to the Spaniards, they have ever been friendly to the Americans.
Sometimes they sacrificed prisoners to the sun; cultivated a few vegetables; and shaved their heads, excepting the scalp-lock.
The women dressed decently, and the men went on a hunt regularly to the plains for buffalo.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century they numbered about 6,000, with 2,000 warriors.
In 1833 they were seated upon a reservation north of the Nebraska River, and made rapid progress towards civilization, when the fierce Sioux swept down upon them, ravaged their country, and killed many of their people.
Driven south of the Nebraska, they lost nearly half their number by disease.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peffer , William Alfred 1831 - (search)
Peffer, William Alfred 1831-
Legislator; born in Cumberland county, Pa., Sept. 10, 1831; enlisted as a private in the 83d Illinois Infantry in 1862; mustered out in 1865 with the rank of lieutenant; then removed to Kansas and established the Fredonia Journal.
He was elected to the State Senate in 1874; to the United States Senate in 1891; and was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Kansas in 1898 on the Prohibition ticket.
See imperialism; people's party.
Peffer, William Alfred 1831-
Legislator; born in Cumberland county, Pa., Sept. 10, 1831; enlisted as a private in the 83d Illinois Infantry in 1862; mustered out in 1865 with the rank of lieutenant; then removed to Kansas and established the Fredonia Journal.
He was elected to the State Senate in 1874; to the United States Senate in 1891; and was the unsuccessful candidate for governor of Kansas in 1898 on the Prohibition ticket.
See imperialism; people's party.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), People's party. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips , Wendell 1811 -1884 (search)