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From: David Graybill on 06/05/2000 12:52 PM
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Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska
EARLY HISTORY
Produced by Gary Martens and Laurie Saikin
Part 1: Discovery of Nebraska | The Cities of Cibola | Stephen the Moor
Part 2: Coronado, the Brilliant Cavalier | The Realm of Tartarrax
First Glimpse of Nebraska
Part 3: Description of Nebraska in 1541 | Discovery of the Mississippi
Jean Nicolet at Green Bay | Jesuit Endeavor
Re-Discovery of the Mississippi
Part 4: La Salle's Undertakings | Hennepin's Journey
Louisiana under French and Spanish Rule
Cession of Louisiana to The United States
The Treaty of Cession | District of Louisiana
Part 5: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Part 6: The Territory Of Louisiana | The Territory of Missouri
Maj. Long's Explorations | A Period of No Government
Ashley's Expedition
Part 7: Col. Fremont's Explorations | Indian Tribes and Treaties
Part 4
LA SALLE'S UNDERTAKINGS
The work left unfinished by Joliet--the discovery of the mouth of the
Mississippi-was accomplished by the
indomitable La Salle. The discovery of a water-route to China, the
planting of colonies in the West, the building
of a fort at the point where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of
Mexico--these were the magnificent schemes
revolving in his mind while at Fort Frontenac, Canada. Having first
obtained a royal commission for perfecting
the discovery of the great river, La Salle, with the necessary compani=
ons
and stores, ascended Lake Ontario,
entered the Niagara River and, passing around the falls, selected a sp=
ot
at the mouth of a stream now known as
Cayuga Creek, on the America site, about two leagues above the catarac=
t,
where he commenced building the
"Griffin," a bark of sixty tons. This craft, after many delays, was
finally fully equipped, and spreading her sails,
boldly stood on her way westward--the first vessel to navigate Lake Er=
ie.
This was in August, 1679.
A pleasant and rapid run brought them to the mouth of the Detroit Rive=
r.
Thence they passed into Lake Huron,
and, after a rough voyage upon that lake, the "Griffin" was safely moo=
red
in the Straits of Mackinaw. In
September, La Salle passed westward into Lake Michigan, and cast ancho=
r,
finally, near one of the islands at the
entrance of Green Bay. From this point the vessel was sent back with a
rich cargo of furs, under orders to return
with provisions and supplies, to be conveyed to the head of Lake Michi=
gan.
But the "Griffin" and her crew were
never more heard of. She probably foundered and all on board perished.=
La
Salle, with fourteen men, after
parting with his vessel, started up Lake Michigan in four canoes deepl=
y
laden. After terrible hardships, he
reached the head of the lake, and, circling around it, paddled his way
into the mouth of the river. St.
Joseph--called by him the "Miamis."
From this river, La Salle crossed to a branch of the Illinois, down wh=
ich
he floated to the main stream, on whose
banks, below what is now Peoria, he finally rested. Leaving all his
companions except five, he then determined to
return to Canada to bring forward supplies. This return trip was
undertaken on foot in the month of March,
1680; and has been much commented upon for the daring and hardihood
necessary for its successful
accomplishment, but more especially as to the route pursued. La Salle
followed up the Illinois, crossed over to
Lake Michigan and was soon at the mouth of the St. Joseph. Here he was
assured of the fate of the "Griffin" by
two men whom he found; so he pushed onward with his big party through=20=
the
unknown wilds of what is now
Southern Michigan. Finally, the Detroit River was reached and crossed,=
and
the persevering Frenchmen, taking a
direct line thence to Lake Erie, came to its northern shores at a plac=
e
not far from Point Pelee, he having sent
two of his men from the Detroit to Mackinaw. Upon the lake he embarked=
in
a canoe made as best he could,
and in it reached the Niagara River in safety. Thence he made his way
without accident to Fort Frontenac, at the
foot of Lake Ontario, after sixty-five days of incessant toil from his
place of starting on the Illinois--the most
ardous journey perhaps ever made by Frenchmen in all their expeditions=
,
either in the valley of the St. Lawrence
or the Mississippi.
HENNEPIN'S JOURNEY.
Previous to LaSalle's leaving the Illinois, Louis Hennepin, a Francisc=
an
friar, had been sent down that river to
explore it to its mouth, and, after reaching the Mississippi, to move=20=
up
that river and report his discoveries.
Hennepin journeyed as far as the Falls of St. Anthony, which he named,=
and
returned after much suffering and
many narrow escapes by way of the Wisconsin River to Lake
Michigan--wintering (1680-81) upon the Straits of
Mackinaw, and finally, in the last-mentioned year, reaching, by way of
Lake Huron and the lower lakes, the
River St. Lawrence in safety.
On the 6th day of February, 1682, there stood at the mouth of the Illi=
nois
River, gazing out upon the silent
waters, La Salle. He had returned from Canada by way of the lakes to t=
he
point where he then was, his
destination being the mouth of the Mississippi. Although fully satisfi=
ed
that the great stream flowed onward to the
gulf, yet, as before mentioned, he was resolved to complete the work b=
egun
by Joliet and explore it to its mouth.
Boldly he and his party embarked in their canoes. Onward they floated,
every stage of their adventurous
progress being marked with strange sights, but they hesitated not. The=
y
had many adventures with the savages;
many hardships to encounter; many obstacles to overcome; but, finally,=
in
the early part of April, the great gulf
opened before them. They had reached what the sad followers of De Soto=
had
seen 150 years previous--the
mouth of the Mississippi. Thereupon the whole country drained by the
Mississippi was taken possession of in the
name of the French King. In the autumn of 1683, La Salle, by way of th=
e
Illinois, once more returned to the St.
Lawrence. Thus Europeans explored, from the Falls of St. Anthony to th=
e
Gulf of Mexico, a country to which La
Salle gave the name of Louisiana. "We have given the name Louisiana to
this great discovery," said Hennepin to
the King of France, in 1682, "being persuaded that Your Majesty would=20=
not
disapprove that a part of the earth
watered by a river more than eight hundred leagues in length, and much
greater than Europe, which we may call
the Delight of America, and which is capable of terming a great Empire=
,
should henceforth be known under the
august name of Louis, that it may thereby have some show of right to
aspire to the honor of your protection, and
hope for the advantage of belonging to you."
The vast area watered by the Missouri was, as yet, an undiscovered
country. "As we were descending the river,"
wrote Marquette of his voyage down the Mississippi, in 1673, with Joli=
et,
"we saw high rocks with hideous
monsters painted on them and upon which the bravest Indians dare not l=
ook.
They are as large as a calf, with
head and horns like a goat; their eyes red; beard like a tiger's and a
face like a man's. Their tails are so long that
they pass over their heads and between their forelegs under their bell=
y
and ending like a fish's tail. They are
painted red, green and black. They are so well drawn that I cannot bel=
ieve
they were made by the Indians. And
for what purpose they were made seems to me a great mystery. As we fel=
l
down the river, and while we were
discoursing upon these monsters, we heard a great rushing and bubbling=
of
waters, and small islands of floating
trees coming from the mouth of the Pekitanoni [the Missouri] with such
rapidity that we could not trust ourselves
to go near it. The water of this river is so muddy that we could not d=
rink
it. It so discolors the Mississippi as to
make the navigation of it dangerous This river comes from the northwes=
t
and empties into the Mississippi, and on
its banks are situated a number of Indian villages. * * The Indians to=
ld
us that by ascending the Pekitanoni, about
six days' journey from its mouth, we would find a beautiful prairie tw=
enty
or thirty leagues broad, at the end of
which, to the northwest, is a small river which is not difficult to
navigate. This river runs toward the southwest for
ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake, which is t=
he
source of another deep river, running to the
west, where it empties into the sea." Such was the first description e=
ver
given to civilized man of the country of
the Missouri; vague and indefinite it is, but bearing some resemblance=
to
the region as it was afterward seen.
The hope entertained by Father Marquette was to find communication wit=
h
the California Sea, "in order to be
able to publish the Gospel to all the nations of this New World, who h=
ave
so long been plunged in heathen
darkness." This avenue, he was led to believe, might be found through=20=
what
are now called the Missouri and
Platte Rivers; for, from the Indians he had learned that by advancing=20=
up
the Missouri five or six days, "you come
to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which yon must c=
ross
to the northwest. It terminates at another
little river, on which you can embark, it not being difficult to trans=
port
canoes over so beautiful a country as that
prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues,
after which it enters a small lake, which is the
source of another deep river running to the west, where it empties int=
o
the sea." The brave Christian worker was
not correctly informed as to the geography of the region beyond Nebras=
ka,
but his spirit shines out as one of the
most glorious in the annals of devout endeavor through the pages of hi=
s
journal. Such men are the rare exemplars
for the people of all time to shape their lives by. Patient, hopeful,
courageous, sincere--the name of Marquette is
one to be cherished because of what he was, as well as what he did.
The first effort at cartography in the West was made by Father Marquet=
te,
in 1673. This crude map contains a
much closer resemblance to the later and more scientifically designed
charts than does that of any of the early
maps to the regions attempted to be described.
"We found," says the historian of La Salle's voyage down the Mississip=
pi,
in 1682, " the Ozage [Missouri] River
coming from the west. It is fully as large as the River Colbert
[Mississippi], into which it empties, troubling it so
that from the mouth of the Ozage the water is hardly drinkable."
From the St. Lawrence, La Salle returned to France to make arrangement=
s
for colonizing the country he had
explored. In July, 1684, he left Rochelle with a fleet of four vessels=
for
the mouth of the Mississippi. Being
ignorant of the coast, his vessels went too far westward and landed at
Matagorda Bay, Texas. This was
February 14, 1685. He was fully 120 leagues away from the great river=20=
he
was in search of. His expedition
proved a failure; for one of his vessels was shipwrecked and, on the 1=
4th
of March, his principal associate
determined to abandon the project of establishing a colony. He left La
Salle without mechanical implements and
other necessary articles to commence operations with in an uncultivate=
d
region. He was in an unknown country,
on an inhospitable shore, surrounded by savages and exposed to the mos=
t
imminent dangers. A fort was erected
to protect them on the Rivere aux Vaches, which was named St. Louis, i=
n
honor of the French King. Early in
1686, La Salle decided to return to Canada, taking with him seventeen
persons, and leaving twenty at Fort St.
Louis, including men, women and children--the wretched remnant of the=20=
180
persons who had accompanied him
from France. On his journey from Fort St. Louis, La Salle was assassin=
ated
by one of his own men and his
colony left behind was afterward broken up--nearly all perishing miser=
ably
at the hands of merciless savages.
Thus ended the first attempt at colonizing Louisiana.
Any further attempt at colonization of the Lower Mississippi was
interrupted by a war between the Iroquois and
the British colonies on the one side and the French of Canada on the
other, commencing in 1689, which was
terminated by the peace of Ryswick in 1697; however, several Canadians=
,
attracted by the beauty and fertility of
the country had, meanwhile, established themselves during this period
along the shores of the great river.
Settlements were also formed in the Illinois country, east of the
Mississippi. As soon as peace was re-established
on a solid and permanent basis, the French court bestowed its attentio=
n
upon the affairs of the New World. On
the 27th of February, 1699, Iberville, with a small colony consisting
mostly of Canadians, entered the Mississippi
from the Gulf. In May, he planted his colony on the Bay of Biloxi, wit=
hin
the limits of the present State of
Mississippi. Sauvolle was the first Governor. He was succeeded by
Bienville.
LOUISIANA UNDER FRENCH AND SPANISH RULE.
On the 17th of September, 1712, the entire province of Louisiana inclu=
ding
the vast country between the Rocky
Mountains on the west and the Alleghanies on the east--in short, the
entire area drained by the Mississippi--was
granted to Anthony Crozart, a wealthy French merchant. Of course, with=
in
his grant was the whole of the
territory now constitutingthe State of Nebraska. Crozart agreed to sen=
d
every year two ships from France with
goods and emigrants. In his grant, the river "heretofore called
Mississippi," is named "St. Louis;" the "Missourys"
is called '' St. Phillip;" and the ''Ouabache" (the Ohio and Wabash
united) is named "St. Jerome." Louisiana was
made dependent upon the General Government of New France (Canada). The
laws of Paris were to be
observed and enforced in the province. Crozart's patent extended sixte=
en
years, but was resigned after five
years. A short time after its relinquishment, the colony of Louisiana=20=
was
granted to the Mississippi Company,
projected by the celebrated John Law, with authority to monopolize all=
the
trade and commerce of the
province--to declare and prosecute wars and appoint officers. The comp=
any
built Fort Chartres, about sixty-five
miles below the mouth of the Missouri, on the east side of the
Mississippi. Miners and mechanics were
encouraged to emigrate, and the city of New Orleans was founded in 171=
7.
Settlements now began to extend
along the banks of the "mighty river," and the Illinois country receiv=
ed a
considerable accession.
Dutisne, a French officer, was sent from New Orleans, in 1719, by
Bienville, the Governor of Louisiana, into the
country west of the Mississippi. He visited a village of the Osage
Indians, five miles from the Osage River, at
eighty leagues above its mouth. Thence he crossed to the northwest 120
miles, over prairies abounding with
buffaloes, to some Pawnee villages. Fifteen days more of westward marc=
hing
brought him to the Padoucahs, a
brave and warlike nation. Here he erected a cross with the arms of the
king, September 27, 1719. If Dutisne did
not actually set foot upon what is now the State of Nebraska, he could=
not
have been very far away on that day.
"On the 10th [of October, 1721], about 9 o'clock in the morning, after=
we
had gone five leagues on the
Mississippi," writes Charlevoix, "we arrived at the mouth of the Misso=
uri,
which is north-northwest and
south-southeast. I believe this is the finest confluence in the world.=
The
two rivers are much of the same breadth,
each about half a league; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, a=
nd
seems to enter the Mississippi like a
conqueror, through which it carries its white waters to the opposite
shore, without mixing them; afterward, it
gives its color to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but
carries it quite down to the sea."
"The Osages," continues Charlevoix, "a pretty numerous nation, settled=
on
the side of a river which bears their
name and which runs into the Missouri about forty leagues from its
junction with the Mississippi, send, once or
twice a year, to sing the Calumet amongst the Kaskaskias, and are actu=
ally
there at present. I have also just now
seen a Missouri woman, who told me that her nation is the first we mee=
t
with going up the Missouri, from which
she has the name we have given her, for want of knowing her true name.=
It
[the Missouri nation] is situated eighty
leagues from the confluence of that river [the Missouri] with the
Mississippi.
As early as 1719, the Spaniards in New Mexico, alarmed at the rapid
encroachments of the French in the Upper
and Lower Mississippi Valleys, made strenuous exertions to dispossess
them. In order to accomplish this, they
thought it necessary to destroy the Missouri nation, who were in allia=
nce
with the French. Their plan was to
excite the Osages against their neighbors--the Missouris--and then tak=
e
part in the contest against the latter. An
expedition was fitted out in 1720 at Santa F=E9; it was a moving carav=
an of
the desert. The Spaniards were led to
the very tribe they would have destroyed, supposing them to be Osages.=
The
result was that all were killed
except one, who succeeded in making his escape. This boldness of the
Spaniards caused the French under M.
de Bourgmont to erect a fort on an island in the Missouri, above the m=
outh
of the Osage River, which post was
called "Fort Orleans." But the stockade was attacked after its complet=
ion
and occupation, and all the garrison
slain--by whom was never known. The builder of Fort Orleans, before it=
s
destruction, passed many leagues up
the Kansas River, and made firm friends of the Padoucahs--who had
previously been seen by Dutisne. The
Indians had previously traded with the Spaniards in New Mexico.
The first information extant of the tribes of Indians inhabiting the
Missouri River above the Missouri nation, is that
given by Charlevoix in 1721: "Higher up we find the Cansez [Kansas]; t=
hen
the Octotatas [Otoes], which some
call Mactotatas; then the Ajouez [Iowas] and Panis [Pawnees], a very
populous nation, divided into several
cantons, which have names very different from each other. * * All the
people I have mentioned inhabit the west
side of the Missouri, except the Ajouez, which are on the east side,
neighbors of the Sioux, and their allies." It is
evident, that, during the first half of the seventeenth century, the
country now forming the State of Nebraska was
inhabited along its southern border by the Kansas Indians; that the Pl=
atte
River, then called the Rivere des Panis,
was the home of the Pawnees, who had also villages to the northward--a=
t a
point a considerable distance up the
Missouri River. But to the westward, on the head-waters of the Kansas
River, of the Platte River and of the
Niobrara, lived the Padoucahs--a tribe long since extinct.
In the beginning of her history, the State of Kansas is more fortunate
than her sister State north. We know to a
certainty that as early as 1719, Dutisne visited her territory and tha=
t
Bourgmont was there in 1724. Now, while it
is almost as certain that what is now Nebraska was visited by Frenchme=
n
not long subsequent to this period, yet
the names of these visitors we shall never know. They were traders,
hunters and trappers from the Mississippi
River and from Canada. They cannot be called explorers, much less
colonists. They left no record behind them
of the Missouri country and its various tribes.
The Mississippi Company, in 1732, surrendered their charter to the Fre=
nch
Government. Then it was that the
"Mississippi bubble" burst. The company had held possession of Louisia=
na
for fourteen years and left it with a
population of 5,000 whites and half as many blacks. The French King, o=
n
the 10th day of April of that year,
declared the province free to all his subjects, with equal privileges=20=
as
to trade and commerce. But, though the
company of the West did little for the enduring welfare of the Mississ=
ippi
Valley, it did something; the cultivation
of tobacco, indigo, rice and silk was introduced; the lead mines of
Missouri were opened, and, in the Illinois
country, the culture of wheat began to assume some degree of stability=
and
importance; but the immediate valley
of the Missouri still remained wholly in possession of native tribes.=20=
For
the next thirty years, very little transpired
in the upper portions of Louisiana worthy of especial mention. St.
Genevieve, on the west side of the Mississippi,
within the present limits of the State of Missouri, was founded, and,
during the year 1762, the first village was
established on the Missouri River within the same State, named "Villag=
e du
Cote," now St. Charles. In the same
year, the Governor General of Louisiana granted to Laclede and others=20=
a
charter under the name of the
"Louisiana Fur Company," which, among other things, conferred the
exclusive privilege of trading with the
Indians of the Missouri River. But, just before this time, momentous
events had transpired in Canada. This
country was conquered by the English, and, as we shall now see, Louisi=
ana
became the property of other
powers.
CESSION OF LOUISIANA TO THE UNITED STATES.
By the British conquest of Canada, in 1760, the province of Louisiana
alone remained to France; but even this
she was not in a position to hold. Therefore, it was, that, on the 3d=20=
of
November, 1762, she ceded it to Spain,
shorn, however, of its eastern half, which fell to the English. The en=
tire
region of the Missouri River, including, of
course, all that is now the State of Nebraska, was thenceforth, for
thirty-seven years, Spanish territory. But
Spain did not at once take possession of her portion of Louisiana, as=20=
the
sequel shows. On the 15th of February,
1764, Laclede's company established itself on the present site of St.
Louis, where he founded that city and gave
it its name. Two years after this, Don Antonio d'Ulloa, the Spanish
Governor, arrived at New Orleans, but was
so coldly received that he departed without having produced his
credentials. Two years after, a company of
Spanish troops took possession of St. Louis in the name of the King of
Spain; and, in 1770, French sway was at
an end in so mnch of Upper Louisiana as lay west of the Mississippi; f=
or,
in that year, a Lieutenant Governor
arrived at St. Louis and extended his authority over the whole region.=
But
Great Britain did not long remain the
possessor of the country east of the Mississippi; for, by the definite
treaty of peace, signed September 3, 1783,
the United States was declared to extend from the Atlantic Ocean westw=
ard
to the Mississippi River, and from a
line along the great lakes on the north southward to the thirty-first
parallel and southern border of Georgia. Still,
the territory now constitnting the State of Nebraska was no part of th=
e
United States. The vast region bordering
upon the Missouri (beginning a short distance above the confluence wit=
h
the Mississippi) and watered by its
tributaries, remained a possession of Spain, and the home of savage
nations, visited only by the vagrant trader to
traffic in furs with the different tribes. These traders were mostly
Frenchmen. Sometimes they would have houses
and remain stationary for one, two, and even more years; but, sooner o=
r
later, they all departed the country.
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Date: 10 Jul 2000 18:02:26 -0700
From: buck.conner@uswestmail.net
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Re: List is slow - [OFF TOPIC]
On Sun, 09 July 2000, "John Hunt" wrote:
> >have him tell you the story about his grandfather's brother that rode with Villa and then ended up in the movies, cool stuff. ********How about sharing it with the rest of us, sounds interesting.***************
You asked for it, it's not this "lists" time period, but still early history for those on the list that do the "cowboys shoots", thanks for asking John. Those that are not interested Please delete.
George "Buck" Connor ( Leroy N. Conner, Sr.Æs older brother[my grand father]) was a bantam rooster of a man when standing next to his brother of 6Æ1ö, he served in the Spanish-American War, had ridden in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Shows and had been a Texas Ranger.
During the Mexican Revolution he was commissioned to go to Mexico and take movies of the battles. His final assignment was to cover the War as close as possible in Mexico near the end of the century, he was known to be somewhat of a hot head and had had several run ins with the local Federales. The Federales issued orders that anyone caught with a camera would be shot as a spy.
George sent the camera back to the States, instead
of returning, and known to like a good fight he ended up as a revolutionary riding with the ôarmy of peonsö, wearing the crossed bandoleers of his now famous friends and ex-bandit outlaws Pascual Orozco and Doroteo Arango (Pancho Villa).
Upon returning to the U.S. he rode in the Pawnee Bill Wild West Show, his ability and horsemanship landed him in the early years of the movie westerns, he was a stunt man and later a pardner of Buck Jones and Bob Steel in the "Saturday Afternoon Cliff Hangers" that thrilled the kids nation wide.
He died in 1947 on the streets of Yuma, AZ as a deputy sheriff, still carrying one of the old ColtÆs used in the Villa War, an 1873 Colt Peacemaker, now on display in a Yuma AZ museum. Found in his belongings was an 1862 Colt 36 cal. conversion rimfire and flap holster and belt that was also carried in Mexico, which we now have in a collection with several other items that where given to my father. I knew of some of his life but the family records didn't show a lot about him, other than he had problems with his father J.W. and had changed his last name to Connor.
A good article on him in the 1985 Annual Guns & Ammo issue, shows him with his friends in Mexico, armed to the teeth, titled "The Last of the Gunfighters".
I was at one of the local video stores in our area, looking for information on ôBuck Jonesö movies
(# 170 your number), mainly oneÆs that had a co-star by the name of ôGeorge Buck Connorö.
After checking with several stores a young lady gave me your address and suggested writing you
of what I was looking for, as your catalog showed only the main stars and not co-stars.
ôGeorge Buck Connorö, was a camera man before the turn of the century covering the Villa war in
Mexico, when word was put out to kill all camera men and reporters George sent the camera and other material home, joined the revolt until able to cross over into the US. He did many movies as a stuntman before teaming up with Buck Jones.
As you have guessed by now we are related, my Grand FatherÆs brother, George changed the spelling of our name, thinking family wonÆt know of his fighting with Villa.
Any help in finding any of the movies he was in would be great.
Let me first apologize for the delay in responding to your inquiry about your Grand FatherÆs brother, Buck / George ConnorÆs movies. You were given an out-of-date address; the correct one follows at the end of this message.
I did some additional research and found a filmography for George. We did not have him listed in our database since the information we receive from suppliers is often very limited, particularly with older titles. I will be adding him to all the titles we list as currently available on video, after a little research I
found he has an interesting career in the movie industry, plus his role with Villa in earlier years.
Some of his filmography includes:
The Westerner (1940)
West of Santa Fe (1939)
The Law Rides (1936)
Alias John Law (1935)
No Man's Land (1935)
The Last Round-Up (1934)
The Thundering Herd (1934)
Desert Vengeance (1931)
The Dawn Trail (1930)
Trails of Peril (1930)
Grit Wins (1929)
Hell's Heroes (1929)
The Crimson Canyon (1928)
The Fearless Rider (1928)
The Phantom Flyer (1928)
The Mojave Kid (1927)
Jaws of Steel (1927)
The Fighting Three (1927)
The Bronco Buster (1927)
Hands Off (1927)
Hidden Loot (1925)
Biff Bang Buddy (1924)
Fighting Fury (1924)
The Back Trail (1924)
The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921)
Action (1921)
The Phantom Riders (1918)
The contiues, but this will give you an idea of how much in demand your great uncle was, very common for thoses with his horseman skills and ability with a gun.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:55:52 -0400
From: "Addison Miller" <admiller@brier.net>
Subject: Re: [Re: MtMan-List: Re: List is slow - [OFF TOPIC]]
Thanks for sharing that with us, Buck... I always love a good story,
especially when it is family history.
Ad Miller
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Date: 10 Jul 2000 20:23:05 -0700
From: buck.conner@uswestmail.net
Subject: Re: [Re: MtMan-List: Re: List is slow - [OFF TOPIC]]
On Mon, 10 July 2000, "Addison Miller" wrote:
> Thanks for sharing that with us, Buck... I always love a good story, especially when it is family history.
>
> Ad Miller
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Thanks Ad,
I really liked this post before we got [OFF TOPIC], the LaSalle venture is very interesting, got to talk to some of the gentlemen that made a trek/canoe trip following their path in 1988 or 1989 at Ft. deChartre, ILL, very interesting. Anybody got more information on the original or follow ups on this !!!
About the close of the year 1714, M. Du Tissenet [11], a young Canadian,arrived at the post of Mobile to enter the service of M. Crozat. He brought with him specimens of lead from the mines in the neighborhood of Kaskaskia, which had been given to him by his countrymen who resided at that place.
These specimens he tool to M. De la Motte, and on being assayed they were found to contain some silver.
He afterward took charge of a grant of land, where he remained until M. Crozat was succeeded by Law,and M. De Boisbriant was appointed Governor of the Illinois district of Louisiana. In October, 1718, M.........
