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Nome and Seward Peninsula: History, Description, Biographies and Stories ... Edward Sanford Harrison No preview available - 2017 |
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Anvil Creek appointed Arctic Arctic Ocean arrived in Nome attorney B. B. Dobbs beach Bering Sea blizzard boat born California Cape Captain citizens claims constructed Council City court Dawson deposit discovery Ditch Company early elected enterprises Eskimo father feet Golovin Bay ground hydraulic Inmachuk interests Judge Noyes Klondike Kobuk Kobuk River Kotzebue Sound land Lindeberg located McKenzie miles miners Mining and Trading Mountain native Nome country Nome River North Northland Northwestern Alaska Norton Sound Ophir Creek organized Photograph by B. B. Pioneer Mining Pioneer Mining Company Port Clarence possesses prospecting prospectors public schools quartz railroad received region reindeer residence returned Russian-American Company San Francisco season Seattle Seward Peninsula Skagway Snake River Solomon River spring of 1900 steamer story stream successful summer town trail traveled trip tundra Unalakleet United valuable vessels Washington whaling winter Yukon
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Page 228 - In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As — -fail!
Page 306 - But och ! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by every wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Page 193 - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
Page 12 - ... about three or four miles distant. The eastern extreme forms a point, which was much encumbered with ice; for which reason it obtained the name of Icy Cape. Its latitude is 70° 29',™ and its longitude 198° 20'.
Page 65 - A receiver may be appointed in any civil action, suit, or proceeding, other than an action for the recovery of specific personal property — 1. Provisionally, before judgment or decree, on the application of either party, when his right to the property, which is the subject of the action, suit, or proceeding, and which is in the possession of an adverse party, is probable, and the property or its rents or profits are in danger of being lost or materially injured or impaired; 2.
Page 352 - Later he studied law at the Columbia Law School and was admitted to the bar, but never engaged in the practice of the profession.
Page 346 - Two years later he was elected to the office of Clerk of the District Court of Houston County, Minn., and held this office for a period of eight years.
Page 268 - ... Island. His publications are: " Occasional Pieces of Poetry " (1825), and "Literary Remains of John GC Brainard," with a sketch of his life, by JG Whittier (1832, 3d ed., 1846). He died in New London, Conn., Sept. 26, 1828. BRAINE, Daniel Lawrence, naval officer, was born in New York city, May 18, 1829. He was educated in the New York public schools and in the Newburg seminary, and in 1846 was appointed midshipman from the state of Texas. During the Mexican war he was attached to the home squadron,...
Page 66 - I am of the opinion that the records and evidence in the cases show beyond any reasonable doubt that the circumstances under which and the purposes for which each of those persons committed the contempt alleged and so found were far graver than is indicated in the opinion of the court, and that the punishment awarded by the court is wholly inadequate to the gravity of the offenses. I think the records and evidence show very clearly that...
Page 202 - His father was a farmer and the subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of his native land.