Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Volume 1Torch Press, 1909 - Mississippi River Valley Vol. for 1922-1923 and 1923-1924 includes Directory of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. |
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Page 26 - The executive committee shall have general charge of the affairs of the association...
Page 22 - ... other members to be elected at the annual meeting, shall constitute an executive committee. At least one member of the executive committee shall be a magistrate of a city of the first class; at least one a magistrate of a city of the second or third class; and at least one magistrate of a village.
Page 27 - The annual meeting shall be held at the same time and place as the annual meeting of the American Baptist Convention.
Page 49 - It may have been a hundred and twenty leagues to the west south-west that our guide lengthened the road by from fifty to sixty leagues and a number of stops to which we were obliged to agree, making us spend the finest weather in autumn staying still, so that we took forty-six days to go a distance we should have done easily in sixteen or twenty days at the most.
Page 26 - IV — OFFICERS The officers of the Association shall be a President, a Vice President, and a Secretary-Treasurer, who...
Page 50 - Their fort is full of caves, in which are stored such articles as grain, food, fat, dressed robes, bear skins. They are well supplied with these ; it is the money of the country ; the more they have of it the richer they believe themselves to be. They are fond of tatooing, but never more than half of the body is tatooed, both of men and women.
Page 46 - In 1731, Verendrye, commissioned and equipped by the Canadian government, with his sons and his nephew, Jemeraye, began their explorations far west of Lake Superior, which they left by the route of Pigeon river and the series of lakes and streams continuing west along the present northern boundary of Minnesota.
Page 14 - This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment having been given at the previous annual meeting, or the proposed amendment having received the approval of the executive council.
Page 48 - He testified much gratitude, promising wonders ; that he would carry provisions to the French, and would hunt to the utmost, so as to supply their wants. On the 21st we continued our route, as far as the first mountain, twenty-six leagues distant from our fort, still to the south by south-west; from the first mountain to the second west and by north-west, 24 leagues. From the point of the second mountain to go direct totheMandanswemustkeep to the southwest.
Page 22 - Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment having been given at the previous annual meeting, or the proposed amendment having received the approval of the Executive Council.