Reconnaissance map on a scale of 1:125000 of the area near Whitesburgh (sic), Kentucky. Letcher, Floyd, Pike, and Knott Counties of Kentucky and Wise and Dickenson Counties of Virginia are shown. Printed at upper left: "U.S. Geological Survey...
It is to be noticed that if there be any marshy places, certain animals breed there, which are invisible to the eye and yet getting into the system through the mouth and nostrils cause serious disorders." This quaint observation is taken from...
Indians of North America--Missions; Jesuits--North America; Wyandot Indians--Religion; Wyandot Indians--Missions; Jesuits--Missions--North America--History
There are perhaps but few passages in history that are more striking than those which tell of heroic efforts of the early French Jesuits to convert the Indians of North America. Many of these efforts are full of dramatic and philosophic interest,...
