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Full text of "Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the ...  Mr. John W. Good of Moline, 111., who died in far away India. ...... From about the ninety-seventh meridian to the Sierra Nevadas the semi-arid West ..... of his party, was 36 a member of the State Central Committee and its chairman for a ...... rest of her dinner was so excellent, they didn't need pudding, and a few hours later,...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - IMDb  Adventure  Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince ... convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. ... Curtin comes in from the other side of the water race, despite there being no crossing ... Dobbs: Say buddy, will you stake a fellow Am..
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This Day in Quotes: We don't need no stinking badges!  the ...  Jan 7, 2014 ... The main characters are three American prospectors searching for gold in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains: ... I don't have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabron and ching' tu madre! The answer given by the head bandido in the 1948 movie adaptation of The Treasure of the Sierra...
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The Higher Abdication by O Henry  Fifteen years of tramphood spent out of the twenty-two years of his life had hardened ... But he had not yet learned to estimate these cool, languid, Southwestern ... told him in Des Moines that the Alamo City was manna fallen, gathered, cooked, .... Indeed, the Cibolo ranch-house seemed more of the South than of the West.
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Donner Party - Wikipedia  The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 184647 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. ... This mountain range contains 500 distinct peaks over 12,000 feet (3,700 m)...
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Family of Gunslingers Put Colton on the Map - latimes  Aug 14, 2005 ... Colton carries the name of an obscure railroad man, but a famous family helped put ... Three brothers -- Don, Zack and Cliff -- formed the Earp Society, dedicated to the preservation of and education about the Old West. ... sons -- Newton, James, Wyatt, Virgil and Warren -- were hired by the Southern Pacific...
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NSHS Educational Leaflet No. 12 - Along Nebraska Trails - USGenNet  For eight weeks they followed Nebraska's eastern border, the Missouri River, ... Pass route west and wrote a report, widely circulated in the East, which praised the ... The pioneer band of Mormons, fleeing persecution in Illinois, were led by ... the trail to go to California rather than Oregon, but it was not until the discovery of...
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Reclaimed from a Contracting Zion - Digital Scholarship@UNLV  May 1, 2012 ... history of the town from its establishment, abandonment, and ...... controlled much of what is now southern Nevada. .... Thomas going under the water of a reservoir. ... 10 Early LDS communities in Utah had little to no separate secular ... combined.16 It is closely associated with Hoover Dam, one of the...
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chapter xiii. the maricopa, mohave, apache-mohave, yuma,and ...  After this disaster the Yuma never ventured so far up the Gila. Heintzelman states, probably correctly, that the Maricopas are a branch of the Cuchan (Yuma...
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The Horses, They Were Not Ponies, Were Critical To The Endeavor  Even today, old-timers in the remotest parts of the American West still speak of the ... The Pony cut the time of moving information overland to 10 days or less, and on ... Located miles south of Tooele, the old mail station at Simpson Springs, .... the Oregon Trail and other established overland routes, the Pony Express set up...
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r23  The last Spanish cowboy was buried last year at El Toro Memorial Park in a simple ... 1840-45--Mexican government bans immigration to California. ... These lobbyists also set the boundaries, which made Santa Ana more central than Anaheim. ...... for an industrial park, leaving the county with one remaining orange packer.
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Historical Information one of the early gold rushers. Name changed ...  T.40 S., R. 1 W. Named for a pioneer called Uncle Henry. Greely who ... The original Crump settlement was on Poorman's Creek. The Crump ... History of Medford-Jacksonville railroad The S.P. ran their preliminary survey for a ... Poole, who were packers on there way from Oregon City to the California ... Skinner and Wilson.
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The Tragic Fate of the Donner Party, 1847 - EyeWitness to History  As the Donner Party approached the summit of the Sierra Mountains near what ... of the Donner Party and kept a diary of their ordeal during the winter of 1846-47. ... May we, with the help of God, spend the coming year better than we have the...
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Page | 1 NAME Manifest Destiny, Industrialism ... - marshallhistory  B. The United States wanted to annex the Oregon country in order to gain ... D. The first Americans to reach the Oregon country were trappers and traders looking for beaver furs. ... attract new settlers, Mexico passed laws giving cheap land to people who ... Jackson did not want to open up that conflict, even to get Texas.
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Humboldt River Chronology - Nevada Division of Water Resources  The bones include cheetah (only the second set discovered in Nevada), .... John C. Frmont for Baron Alexander von Humboldt, a German scientist whom ... expedition that the Humboldt River was named Barren River due to the ...... 1875 (April 16) The Silver State (Winnemucca) reported that The Indians are doing a lively.
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History of the Yosemite area - Wikipedia  For over 3,000 years Sierra Miwok, Mono, Paiute, and other Native American groups have lived ... Their efforts helped establish Yosemite National Park in 1890. ... United States Army had jurisdiction over the national park from 1891 to 1914, ..... nicknamed "the short line to paradise," arrived at nearby El Portal, California in...