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Buffalo Hunt, Surround

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 9).

"Some sixty or seventy young men, all mounted on their wild horses, and armed with bows and lances only...

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Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves Attacking a Buffalo Bull

Date: 1844
Description: A buffalo surrounded by wolves (Plate 10).

"There are several varieties of the wolf species on the American prairies, the most numerous and formidable of...

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Buffalo Hunt, Approaching in a Ravine

Date: 1844
Description: Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11).

"This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missou...

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Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back

Date: 1844
Description: Buffalo chasing hunter with rifle on horseback (Plate 12).

"The wounded and chafed bull often turns upon its assailant, and runs him back, over the whole...

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Buffalo Hunt, Under the White Wolf Skin

Date: 1844
Description: Indians disguised as wolves hunting buffaloes (Plate 13).

"Of the white wolf and its habits I have given an account in Plate 10, and although these anima...

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Attacking the Grizzly Bear

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on horseback trying to kill a bear (Plate 19).

"The preliminaries of the hunt for the Grizzly Bear having been settled in the manner described in...

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Antelope Shooting

Date: 1844
Description: Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20).

"The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be diff...

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Ball-Play Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22).

"As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th...

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Ball Play

Date: 1844
Description: Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23).

"Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t...

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Archery of the Mandans

Date: 1844
Description: Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24).

"The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,...

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Experimental McCormick-Deering Combine and Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men field testing an experimental McCormick-Deering 12 foot combine with a Farmall M tractor.
Photograph

Girl By Stream

Date: 
Description: Girl wearing dress, with hat in hand, standing next to a stream. She is shown from the back, looking downstream and waving.
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French Arrive at Port Royal

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Laudonnière Expedition in South Carolina, ca. 1564.
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Spanish and French Battle

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1567.
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Map of Ste. Dominique, Hispaniola

Date: 1655
Description: Map from Drake Expedition, ca. 1585.
Map or Atlas

Map of St. Augustine

Date: 1655
Description: Map from Drake Expedition in Florida, ca. 1585.
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The Abduction of Pocahontas by Captain Argall

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1610.
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Pocahontas Is Visited by Her Brothers

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement in which the brothers of Pocahontas visit her.
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Chicahominys Become "New Englishmen"

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614. The Chickahominy tribe's proximity to Jamestown meant they had early contact with the English....
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English Hawking and Fishing in Virginia

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement, ca. 1620.

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