Henry Schoolcraft is mentioned in school books as the discoverer of the source of this long river
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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 - The Online Books Page  Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864: The Indian Tribes of the United States: Their .... 1793-1864: Expedition to Lake Itasca ; the discovery of the source of the .... chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, performed as a...
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft | American explorer and ethnologist ...  American explorer and ethnologist noted for his discovery of the source of the Mississippi River and for his writings on ... School and Library Subscribers ... Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, (born March 28, 1793, Albany County, N.Y., U.S.died Dec. ... the longest river of North America, draining with its major tributaries an area of...
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My 21st Century Expedition: Following the Route of Schoolcraft ...  We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths .... traversed, find the true source of the Mississippi River, examine the Indian tribes ... 1820: Resumed and Completed by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832. .... 24 Schoolcraft, Henry R. Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper...
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Henry Schoolcraft - Wikipedia  Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793  December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. .... The Schoolcrafts sent Janee and John to a boarding school in Detroit for part...
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - The "Lewis And Clark" of The Ozarks  In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned The Corps of Discovery, better ... their party only skirted the northern edges of the Ozarks along the Missouri River. ... In the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his assistant Levi ... was no mention of much gravel being present in the beds of the Ozark streams.
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Reading Water: Lessons from the River (Capital ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. From Library Journal. Rivers provided the main routes for discovery of the ... For millions of Americans and foreign visitors who have navigated America's great rivers by raft or boat - and for those who wish they could - this book will help them understand rivers and their impact on the human emotional...
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Expedition to Lake Itasca ; the discovery of the source of the ...  Mississippi River > Sources. Note: First published in 1834 under title: Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake. Physical...
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J! Archive - Show #1480, aired 1991-01-25  Lake Tear of the Clouds is the source of this river, the longest in New York State ... In Greek myth, this river flows by Hades; in reality, it's in Alabama...
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Historical Look at the Susquehanna River Watershed - NYWEA  traveling south by canoe moments from the Susquehanna River. Scottie Baker, www.naturaproductions.com. Historical Look at the Susquehanna.
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Origin of Washington Geographic Names (Continued) - JStor  the mill the name Seatco, an Indian word supposed to mean "ghost" or "devil." Coal was ... ays that this combination name was first proposed as early as 1873 but that Mr. Shead ..... George Vancouver, the English explorer, gave names to a number of the most prominent ...... He came upon a large river which he said the...
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Thomas Cole - Wikipedia  The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836). Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801  February 11, 1848) was an American artist known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art ... Among Cole's other famous works are the Oxbow (1836) (pictured below),...
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Origin of the Names of 28 U.S. States - american indian source  Connecticut -From Mohican and other Algonquin words meaning "long river place." Delaware -Named for Lord De La Warr, early governor of Virginia; first applied to river, then to Indian tribe (Lenni-Lenape), and the state.
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Author Country: Longfellow, the Bronts, and Anglophone Homes ...  Longfellow, in contrast, chose a literary career and set out, as a young college teacher ... travels in France, Spain, and Italy in the antique style of Washington Irving. ... a founding legend of the Francophone Acadians, and The Song of Hiawatha ...... there are still Longfellow fans who meet at the Wayside Inn to share poetry...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Auburn University  Second, Longfellow wrote on obvious themes which appeal to all kinds of people. ... Indian ('Song of Hiawatha'), and American history and tradition ('The Courtship of ... report of him was received at home:"Master Henry Longfellow is one of the .... week of its publication, and 10,000 were ordered in London on the first day of...
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Maine Memory Network Exhibit - Picturing Henry  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born and raised in Portland, became America's best-known ... In the era before photography, Bowdoin College captured images of its ... Joining Longfellow in the "famous" Class of 1825 were Nathaniel Hawthorne and ... languages so that he could take up a teaching position at his alma mater.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Wikipedia  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807  March 24, 1882) was an American poet ... Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, Maine, c. ... There Longfellow met Nathaniel Hawthorne, who would later become his lifelong friend. ... he was offered a job as professor of modern languages at his alma mater.
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Town of Kinderhook, NY  The Town of Kinderhook is a remarkable and extraordinary place. Henry Hudson, while moored on the river that today bears his name, noticed the Mahican...
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The Village Blacksmith - Wikipedia  "The Village Blacksmith" is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1840. ... Years after its publication, a tree mentioned in the poem was cut down and ... the local schoolchildren in Cambridge, Massachusetts presented Longfellow .... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike...
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William & Mary - Students share knowledge of Chesapeake Bay via ...  Mar 26, 2013 ... Seventh graders at Queens Lake Middle School in Williamsburg recently took learning to ... to share what they learned about the nation's largest estuary in 140 characters or less. ... offered by the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (CBNERR) at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
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HENRY MORTON STANLEY  EXPLORATION AND MAPPING OF ...  Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), one of the world's most famous explorers, had a ... The Congo River with its length of course of about 4,700 km is one of the ... American expedition, in which he travelled the whole of the course of the river; .... for which Stanley worked as a correspondent and the British Daily Telegraph,.
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April 2 - July 31, 1857 - The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau  at the head of the river used the tallow to rub. 11 ... 15The Regal Table of England since the Conquest,. 2. & some of .... a map of Bristol County behind the. 27 ..... you would make a stream large enough to {turn} a mill. 19 ..... inches it would probably have been just as full. 20 ...... is a never failing capital which can never. 25.