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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 54 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 44 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 42 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 42 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 40 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 36 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 36 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 34 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 32 0 Browse Search
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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 14: Jesuits' pupils. (search)
no case to permit their sons to have more than twenty-five cents a week. Twenty-five cents make one shilling. Varsi is of opinion that sixpence is enough. These rules apply to men of legal age! How many pupils have you on the books? About two hundred names. The numbers vary with the seasons, but we usually have two hundred names on our list. Such numbers are not large. It may console the fathers to know that they have more volumes on their shelves than any other college in California. It may console them more to find that they have a longer list of students than the Methodist University in Santa Clara. But the Evangelical colleges are many, while the Jesuit college is only one. Catholics have one school at San Jose, a second school at San Francisco, but non-Catholics have fifty schools in these great towns. The Jesuits are training six hundred children in these schools; the rival bodies are training more than twenty thousand children in these towns. Considering h
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 15: Bay of San Francisco. (search)
tting matches, and wiry little ponies are excited by voice and lash into the pace that kills. That racecourse lying in the shadow of a grave-yard is a type of California in her ordinary mood. The towns and villages on this bay not only teem with life, but life in a most strained and febrile state. No one is calm. No man sit? Well, we exchanged shots. No harm was done. So long as we avoid each other, things are smooth; but if we spoke, blood might be shed. Men and women in California are hearty and open in the highest sense. You are at home in every house, in every club, in every public place. Your face is an introduction, your colour a credential. California is a land of treats and drives, of drinks and dinners. What a host of clubs we have in every town, and what excellent suppers they provide! Here hospitality is king. Shall we forget our forenoons at a country house, our afternoons on a race-course, our evenings at a club? Never, till we have ceased to cla
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 17: White women. (search)
on this coast; some cynics say too rare and precious for their own well-being, not to mention the well-being of the Commonwealth. Nature puts the sexes on the earth in pairs, and man destroys that balance at the cost of his moral death. In California there are five White men to two White women; in Oregon there are four White men to three White women; in Nevada there are three White men to one White woman; in Washington there are two White men to each White woman. Under social arrangements public journals note her doings as the movements of a duchess might be noted in Mayfair. Laura's torch has lighted many a fair sister on the way to murder; yet, in spite of this increase in female crime, no woman's life has yet been given in California to public justice. No, we cannot hang a woman in this country, says a judge of the Supreme Court; it is not easy to hang a man, and when we send a murderer to the gallows, he complains that he is made the victim of his judge, and not his ju
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 30: Oklahoma. (search)
acs, Pottawatomies, and such broken up bands of Shoshones and Utes as those of Labeta and Cornea. Such classes and figures may amuse the sectaries, who are now trying on the Plains the great Christian experiment which the Franciscans tried in California. But the classification is too vague and weak for practical life, and is thrust aside by men who have to deal with living facts. These practical men know two Indian classes only- I. Wild Indians. II. Half-wild Indians. All the greatdred thousand souls; and are the true Red men, unmixed with alien blood, untouched by alien creeds. The second class contains the smaller Indian families, who, from contact with White men, have been half-subdued and fixed: Mission Indians of California, Pueblo Indians of Arizona, Senecas in New York, Chippewas in Michigan, Winnebagoes in Nebraska, Choctaws, and Cherokees in Oklahoma, and their fellows everywhere. These Indians, mostly surrounded by White settlers, count about a hundred thou
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 32: a frontier town. (search)
ns shall have ceased to live in tribes, to hold their lands in common, and obey the orders of despotic chiefs. Yet, as a town was needed on the frontier, not for local traffic only, but for the security and supply of a long chain of Indian posts, including Fort Sill, Fort Griffin, and Fort Richardson, a town was ordered to be built, and has accordingly been built. The story of Denison City is as curious, in its way, as the story of Salinas City; for Denison in Texas, like Salinas in California, is built by English enterprise, with English gold. Five miles from the bridge over Red River, Colonel Stevens, engineer of the Texas and Kansas railways, found a safer and better site. The Colonel (in whose company we have the great advantage of seeing these countries) is a man of vast experience in the ways of savage life. No one in the service knows the Redskins better, or the land on which they live so well. A town was needed on the frontier, and he chose the site, instead of lea
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