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Cheyenne Indians
One of the most westerly tribes of the Algonquian nation.
They were seated on the Cheyenne, a branch of the Red River of the North.
Driven by the Sioux, they retreated beyond the Missouri.
Near the close of the eighteenth century they were driven to or near the Black Hills (now in the Dakotas and Wyoming), where Lewis and Clarke found them in 1804, when they possessed horses and made plundering raids as far as New Mexico.
See Clarke, George Rogers; Lewis, Meriwether.
About 1825, when they were at peace with the Sioux, and making war upon the Pawnees, Kansas, and other tribes, a feud occurred in the family.
A part of them remained with the Sioux, and the others went south to the Arkansas River and joined the Arapahoes.
Many treaties were made with them by agents of the United States, but broken; and, finally, losing all confidence in the honor of the white race, they began hostilities in 1861.
This was the first time that the Cheyennes were at war with t
Colorado
A State occupying a mountainous and high plateau region, between Kansas and Nebraska on the east, Utah on the west, Wyoming on the north, and New Mexico and Texas on the south, organized as a Territory Feb. 28, 1861, from parts of its several contiguous neighbors, and admitted to the Union July 4, 1876, hence known as the Centennial State.
The portion north of the Arkansas River, and east of the Rocky Mountains, was included in the Louisiana purchase of 1803 and the remainder in the Mexican cession of 1848.
Francis Vasquez de Coronado is believed to have been the first European explorer of this region in 1540.
In 1806 President Jefferson sent an expedition, under Lieut. Z. M. Pike, to explore this region, and it nearly crossed the territory from north to south in the mountain region, and discovered
State seal of Colorado. the mountain known as Pike's Peak.
In 1820 another expedition, under Col. S. H. Long, visited this region; and in 1842-44 Col. John C. Fremont c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Divorce laws. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elective franchise. (search)
Elective franchise.
In all the States except Wyoming and Colorado (where women are entitled to full suffrage) the right to vote at general elections is restricted to males twenty-one years of age or over.
The registration of voters is required in the following States and Territories: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wyoming.
In some counties in Georgia registration is required by local law. In Kentucky registration is required in cities; in Kansas in cities of the first and second class; in Nebraska and Iowa in cities of 2,500 population and over; in North Dakota in cities of over 3,000; in Ohio in some cities; in Maine in towns of 500 or more voters; in South Dakota in cities and towns of over 1,000 voters and in counties where reg
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Exemptions from taxation. (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayden , Horace Edwin 1837 - (search)
Hayden, Horace Edwin 1837-
Clergyman; born in Catonsville, Md., Feb. 18, 1837; served in the Confederate army in 1861-65; graduated at the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1867; ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the following year; and held various pastorates.
He is the author of History of the West Virginia soldiers' medals;
Birthplace of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Virginia genealogies; Massacre of Wyoming; Pollock Memorial, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holidays, legal. (search)