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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 6: White conquerors. (search)
Chapter 6: White conquerors. guess you'll say here's a place, whispers Colonel Brown, a settler in these parts. If this valley had a little more rain, a little more soil, and a little less the range, when the old boatman stopped in the middle of his passage, and enquired my name. Mister Brown, said I. Mister Brown? said lhe, resting on his oars, evidently puzzled in his head. What nMister Brown? said lhe, resting on his oars, evidently puzzled in his head. What name, stranger? he inquired once more. Mister Brown. He looked distressed, but said no more until I stepped on shore and offered him his fare. Excuse me, sir, he cut in quickly, I cannot take your mMister Brown. He looked distressed, but said no more until I stepped on shore and offered him his fare. Excuse me, sir, he cut in quickly, I cannot take your money. Keep it in memory of this remarkable day. Boy and man, I have kept this ferry on the San Joaquin River for twenty-two. years, and you are positively the first person named Mister, whom I have had the pleasure to put across. On that date I commissioned myself as Colonel Brown. Come, Colonel, bet you don't beat this place in the old country, nohow? Yet Salinas is an English town. Ca
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 24: White vendetta. (search)
trocity the blood feuds of the two Cherokee factions in Vinta between Stand Watie and Jack Ross. Colonel Sisney and George Bulliner were neighbours, living on adjoining farms, near Carterville. Sisney had a farm of three hundred and sixty acres, Bulliner a farm, a saw mill, and a woollen mill. Sisney, a native of the country, had served in the war, and gained the rank of captain. How he obtained the grade of colonel, no one seems to know; he may have been commissioned in the way of Colonel Brown. Bulliner was a new comer, who had left Tennessee, his native state, during the civil war. Sisney had three sons, the eldest of whom, John, was married. Bulliner had sons named Jack and Dave, and a younger brother, David, who had a son called George. Sisney and Bulliner were more or less intimate with all the settlers living round them; Sisney with the Russells and Hendersons, Bulliner with the Hinchcliffes and Cranes. Not far off lived a family named Stocks, in which were three yo