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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Dakota, (search)
9, is bounded on the north by the Canadian provinces of Assiniboia and Manitoba, east by Minnesota, south by South Dakota, and west by Montana. It is limited in lat. by 46° to 49° N., and in long. by 96° 30′ to 104° 5′ W. Area, 70,795 square miles, in thirty-nine counties. Population, 1890, 182,719; 1900, 319,146. Capital, Bismarck. French trader settles at Pembina......1780 United States government expedition under Lewis and Clarke ascend the Missouri River on their way to the Columbia River, 1804, and descend it on their return from the Pacific......1806 Scottish colony, planted under a grant from the Hudson Bay Company, settles at Pembina......1812 Maj. S. H. Long, on a United States government expedition, reaches Pembina, and, finding it to be within the United States, takes possession and raises the stars and stripes......Aug. 8, 1823 Yellouwstone, a side-wheel steamboat built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, Pa., ascends the Missouri River as far as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
he boundary between the State and California and Nevada, to the Columbia River, which separates the State from Washington on the north in lat. under Bruno Heceta in the Santiago, discovers the mouth of the Columbia River......1775 Captain Robert Gray enters the Columbia River in tColumbia River in the American ship Columbia from Boston......May 7, 1792 Lieutenant Broughton, of the British navy, ascends the Columbia River about 100 milColumbia River about 100 miles to the region of the cascades......October–November, 1792 By purchase, the United States acquires the claims of France to Oregon......Ap leading member, establishes a trading-post at the mouth of the Columbia River, which it calls Astoria......1811 D. McKenzie explores the Wmission to make a code of laws for the settlements south of the Columbia River......Feb. 17-18, 1841 Star of Oregon, the first American vesseldge ticket......June 23, 1860 Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia, completed......1864 First National Bank of Portland, the oldes
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Dakota, State of (search)
two States in 1889. It is bounded on the north by North Dakota, east by Minnesota and Iowa, south by Nebraska, and west by Wyoming and Montana. In latitude it lies between 43° and 46° N., and in longitude between 96° 20' and 104° W.; area, 77,650 square miles, in fifty-one counties. Population, 1890, 328,808; 1900, 401,570. Capital, Pierre. Lewis and Clarke ascend the Missouri River on their way to the Pacific, leaving the mouth of the river May 14, 1804, reaching the mouth of the Columbia River Nov. 7, 1805; and returning by the Missouri, arrive at St. Louis......Sept. 23, 1806 Fort Pierre established......1829 First steamboat to navigate the upper Missouri, the Yellowstone, built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, ascends the river as far as Fort Pierre......1831 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by the Indians, ceding to the United States the territory east of the Big Sioux River......1851 Gen. W. S. Harney, with 1,200 men, marches from the Platte River
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
at the head of a Spanish expedition, discovers the mouth of the Columbia River......1775 Strait of Juan de Fuca explored and named by CaptaGray discovers Gray Harbor, which he names Bulfinch Harbor, and Columbia River, which he enters......May 11, 1792 Lieutenant Broughton, of the British navy, ascends Columbia River about 100 miles......October–November, 1792 Puget Sound discovered, named, and explored by Georgearke United States government exploring expedition descends the Columbia River, reaching its mouth......Nov. 5, 1805 Capt. Meriwether Lewis explores the coast from Columbia River to Shoalwater Bay......Nov. 18, 1805 Astoria, first American settlement on Pacific coast, establish the Snake River......January, 1814 Fort Walla Walla, on the Columbia River, built by the Hudson Bay Company......1818 Exploring party uowlitz Landing memorializes Congress for a separate government for Columbia (Oregon north of the Columbia)......Aug. 29, 1851 Seattle foun
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
, Lake Erie; fourteen lives lost......Oct. 14, 1893 Propeller Dean Richmond founders off Dunkirk, Lake Erie; twenty-three lives lost......Oct. 14, 1893 Propellers Philadelphia and Albany collide off Point Aux Barques, Lake Huron; twenty-four lives lost......Nov. 7, 1893 Steamer Niagara founders in Lake Erie; sixteen lives lost......Dec. 5, 1899 Mississippi River. Steamboat Brandywine burned near Memphis; about 110 lives lost......April 9, 1832 Steamer Rob Roy explodes near Columbia; about twenty lives lost......June 9, 1836 Steamer Ben Sherrod, racing with steamer Prairie, takes fire 30 miles below Natchez; 175 lives lost......May 9, 1837 Steamer Dubuque explodes near Bloomington, Wis.; twenty-six lives lost......Aug. 15, 1837 Steamer Monmouth collides with Trenton, in tow of steamer Warren, near Prophet Island, and sinks; of 490 emigrant Creek Indians, 234 perish......Oct. 29, 1837 Steamer General Brown explodes at Helena; sixty killed and injured......No
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, California Volunteers. (search)
isco to Camp Drum, Southern California, March, 1865. Companies A and K to Fort Yuma. Company C to Fort Mojave. Regiment moved to District of Arizona June, 1865, and duty there, stationed at various posts, till June, 1866. Mustered out June 28, 1866. 8th California Regiment Infantry. Organized by Companies as follows: Company A --At Watsonville and mustered in November 17, 1864. Stationed at Fort Point, Cali., till February, 1865. At Cape Disappointment, mouth of the Columbia River, Washington Territory, till August 17, 1865, and at Fort Dalles, Ore., till October, 1865. Ordered to Fort Point, Call., October, 1865. Company B --At Sacramento and mustered in December 5, 1864. Stationed at Fort Point, Call., till April 17, 1865. Moved to Fort Stevens, Ore., April 17-26, and duty there till October 11. Ordered to Fort Point, Call. Company C --Organized at San Jose and mustered in January 28, 1865. At Fort Point, Call., till October, 1865. Company
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 62: life in Washington, D. C., 1866 to 1874; assigned to duty in regular army as commander, Department of the Columbia (search)
e were going to-how rough it was; how extensive the fir forests, and how interminable the rains. They told us the people there were usually called web-feet, because of the abundant water. As everybody knows, Astoria is at the mouth of the Columbia River; Portland, 120 miles from Astoria, and some ten miles above the mouth of the Willamette. Coming to Portland in August, we found the country not only clear of storms, but very dry and dusty. The city had then about 8,000 people. Nearly gon, a part of Idaho, and included within its limits the Territory of Alaska. About 1,000 troops were then stationed at different posts of the command. The central station was Vancouver Barracks, only six miles from Portland but west of the Columbia River. My first official act was to close out General Davis's Modoc Campaign by sending a remnant, those still held as prisoners, to the Indian Territory. My aiddecamp, Captain M. C. Wilkinson, who had done a like service the preceding fall, w
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
can Philosophical Society, in 1793, he had arranged with the French botanist Michaux, then in this country, for an expedition which was to follow the Missouri and some tributary thereof to a point where these waters might communicate with the Columbia River, opening a way to the Pacific. The scheme fell through when Michaux became involved in a French marauding project against the Spanish, and lingered among the recruits in Kentucky. It seems that Meriwether Lewis, a young neighbour of Jeffers spent the next winter in a stockade in North Dakota, proceeding in the spring of 1805 to the source of the Jefferson Fork of the Missouri, and under many hardships crossing over the barrier mountains toward the end of summer. Going down the Columbia River, they reached the Pacific at the close of the autumn, to pass the winter in their Fort Clatsop-log huts enclosed by a palisade. Here they had leisure to study the natives and to compile records. In March, 1806, they began the return journey
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)
tward with its caravans for Santa Fe, another track faded into the plains to the north-west and hammered its devious sagebrush course over mountains, over valleys, through difficult canyons, across dangerous rivers or deserts of death to the Columbia River, to Oregon, to California. This was the path that Francis Parkman, See also Book III, Chap. XV. just out of college, followed in 1846 as far as Fort Laramie; an experience which gave us The California and Oregon Trail (1849). Ezra Meekers. Ann Boyd had experiences on this difficult highway in the late forties, and she presents the record in The Oregon Trail (1862). A rare volume on the same road is Joel Palmer's Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River (1847). For those desiring to identify in detail the route and distances of the Oregon Trail of early days there is a complete exposition in the masterly work by H. M. Chittenden, History of the American Fur trade in the far West (1902). T
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)
ego 1846-47, The, 143 Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, a, 137 Journal of a trapper, the, 134 Journal of Commerce (N. Y.), 322 Journal of education, the, 411 Journal of philosophy, psychology, and scientific method, 263 Journal of speculative philosophy, the, 236, 238, 239 Journal of the Am.Oriental Society, 468 Journal of the meeting of the friends of domestic industry, 438 Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains to the mouth of the Columbia River, 135 Journey in the back country, a, 162 Journey in the seaboard slave States, a, 162 Journeyman Mechanic's advocate, the, 436 Journey through Texas, a, 162 Journey to Ashango land, a, 163 Journey to Central Africa, A, 163 Journey to Russia with General Banks, 1869, A, 164 J. Rombro. See Krantz, Philip Jubel-lied, 41 Judge, 22 Judith of Bethulia, 37, 267 Jugurtha, 582 Jumping Frog, the, 4, 154 Juniper tree, 516 Justice, 293 Justinian, 462 Justin Mar
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