Indian War Diary Blend Of Campaign Skirmishes And Civil Reflections
Denver Times correspondent Leonard Swett recounts Crook’s march from Fort Fetterman across the icy Platte to Sage Creek, stampedes, Arapaho encounters, coal finds, and Indian threats. The piece also blends literary reflections on Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon, plus railroad funding ideas and a long aside on marriage and temperament.
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Fort Fetterman
Platte
Tattoo
Fetterman
Crook
Old Sol
Tin in ancient and modern markets and mining methods
A historical note on tin as a metal and commodity traces its uses from Britannia and pewter to mirrors, citing tin production in Banca, Cornwall, Galicia and Australia. It details mining methods, labor by Coolies, smelting with charcoal, export routes to China and Europe, and historical governance of Banca by English and Dutch powers.
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Mr Lincoln
Lincoln
Burnett's
Clinton
Leonard Swett
The
Encyclopedia
Cornwall
Galicia
Saxony
Bohemia
China
Banos
Banca
Malayan Peninsula
Australia
Banea
Java
Europe
English East India Company
Marseilles
Narrow escape from freezing death near Dodge City
A letter dated March 8 from Will Wallace recounts a snowbound march one mile from town. Six men and horses endured two days without food before John Solander rode for help, saving the party. They traveled four hundred miles in twenty five days from Boulder as neighbors aided them. The Boulder news notes the storm's horror and the party's recovery.
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Sage Creek
Black Hills
Golden Promise
Lararsie Peak
Dodge City
Kansas
Will Wallace
John Solander
Boulder
Bennington
Zebulon
Stanhope
Debating Centennial appropriation stirs Virginia assembly
In Richmond the Virginia legislature heard Peter J. Carter urge against the Centennial bill amid shouts and disruption. He pressed his case with a pointed critique of funding and symbolism, while a separate notice describes odd bear misadventures and a goat shipment across the Midwest.
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Richmond Evening Journal
Virginia
Peter J. Carter
Northumberland County
Smith
Letcher
Ginral Washington
Clay
Calhoun
Logan
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Treasury
Bunkum Hill
George Washington
John Brown
New paper mill formed at Golden eyes Colorado waste
A new paper mill company is organized at Golden and aims to buy paper rags and other waste stock from across Colorado, promising a good impact if procurement proceeds.
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Golden
Colorado
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OLD Colony
Main St
Greeley
Jay AH. Boughtor
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Fort Collins
Larimer County
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B. A. Haynes
A. E. Girson
Haynes & Gipson
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Weld County
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Childs
the Bakery
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Grant and
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Alt Law
Jos. C. Shattuck
Sec'y Union Colony
Denver Pacha
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Colo
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Watertown
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Portland
Maine
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New York
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France
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Peace Commission
Afrer Eqao
Denver Times
South Park
Galesburg
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Keokuk
Chicago
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Haydon
Napoleon
Egypt
Rigo
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Bertheir
Mediterranean
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Elba
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Lord Keith
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Lord Russell
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Burke
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Holkham
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Maydon
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