 | George Catlin - Artists - 1841 - 504 pages
...been to this place — and after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...the tribes of the red men assembled on the Coteau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts, the... | |
 | George Catlin - Artists - 1841 - 490 pages
...been to this place — and after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...earth, all the tribes of the red men assembled on the C6teau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts,... | |
 | George Catlin - Indians of North America - 1842 - 490 pages
...been to this place — and after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...earth, all the tribes of the red men assembled on the C6teau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts,... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...presenting some of the curious information regarding them. One of the Knisteneaux said : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...all the nations of the earth, all the tribes of the red-men assembled on the Coteau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all... | |
 | George Catlin - Indians of North America - 1845 - 492 pages
...been to this place — and after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...earth, all the tribes of the red men assembled on the C&teau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts,... | |
 | George Catlin - Indians of North America - 1848 - 492 pages
...been to this place — and after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...the tribes of the red men assembled on the Coteau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts, the... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - Human beings - 1849 - 248 pages
...raft. The same author gives an account of a similar tradition which was entertained by another tribe. " In the time of a great freshet which took place many...the tribes of the red men assembled on the Coteau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the water. After they had gathered here from all parts, the water... | |
 | George Catlin - Indians of North America - 1850 - 508 pages
...been to this place — aad after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — " That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...earth, all the tribes of the red men assembled on the C6teau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts,... | |
 | George Catlin - Indians of North America - 1857 - 452 pages
...been to this place — and after describing it in all its features, he proceeded to say : — "That in the time of a great freshet, which took place many...the tribes of the red men assembled on the Coteau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts, the... | |
 | Emmanuel Domenech - Deserts - 1860 - 584 pages
...Skins : " Many centuries ago there occurred a deluge, which destroyed all the nations of the earth. The tribes of the Red men assembled on the Coteau des Prairies to escape from the inundation ; but the waters, continuing to increase, soon covered the entire mass of... | |
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Coteau du Prairie, to get out of the way of the waters. After they had all gathered here from all parts, the water continued to rise, until at length it covered them all in a mass, and their flesh was converted into red pipe stone. 
