Author: Frank Hayward SeverancePublisher: Cleveland : The Burrown brothers Company
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Author: Frank Hayward SeverancePublisher: Cleveland : The Burrown brothers Company
ISBN:
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Author: Frank Hayward SeverancePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465564292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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I invite you to consider briefly with me the beginnings of known history in our home region. Of the general character of that history, as a part of the exploration and settlement of the lake region, you are already familiar. What I undertake is to direct special attention to a few of the individuals who made that history—for history, in the ultimate analysis, is merely the record of the result of personal character and influence; and it is striking to note how relatively few and individual are the dominating minds. Remembering this, when we turn to trace the story of the Niagara, we find the initial impulses strikingly different from those which lie at the base of history in many places. Often the first chapter in the story is a record of war for war's sake—the aim being conquest, acquisition of territory, or the search for gold. Not so here. The first invasion of white men in this mid-lake region was a mission of peace and good will. Our history begins in a sweet and heroic obedience to commands passed down direct from the Founder of Christianity Himself. Into these wilds, long before the banner of any earthly kingdom was planted here, was borne the cross of Christ. Here the crucifix preceded the sword; the altar was built before the hearth. Now, I care not what the faith of the student be, he cannot escape the facts. The cross is stamped upon the first page of our home history—of this Buffalo and the banks of the Niagara; and whoever would know something of that history must follow the footsteps of those who first brought the cross to these shores. It is, therefore, a brief following of the personal experiences of these early cross bearers that we undertake; but first, a word may be permitted by way of reminder as to the conditions here existing when our recorded history begins. From remote days unrecorded, the territory bordering the Niagara, between Lakes Erie and Ontario, was occupied by a nation of Indians called the Neuters. A few of their villages were on the east side of the river, the easternmost being supposed to have stood near the present site of Lockport. The greater part of the Niagara peninsula of Ontario and the north shore of Lake Erie was their territory. To the east of them, in the Genesee valley and beyond, dwelt the Senecas, the westernmost of the Iroquois tribes. To the north of them, on Lake Huron and the Georgian Bay, dwelt the Hurons. About 1650 the Iroquois overran the Neuter territory, destroyed the nation and made the region east of the Niagara a part of their own territory; though more than a century elapsed, after their conquest of the Neuters, before the Senecas made permanent villages on Buffalo Creek and near the Niagara. It is necessary to bear this fact in mind, in considering the visits of white men to this region during that period; it had become territory of the Senecas, but they only occupied it at intervals, on hunting or fishing expeditions.
Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Author: Frank Hayward SeverancePublisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : [The Matthews-Northrup Company]
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Author: Frank H. Frank H. SeverancePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Frank H. Severance
Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Author: Frank Hayward SeverancePublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290935081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier (Classic Reprint)
Author: Frank H. SeverancePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331841817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Excerpt from Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier The incidents related in Underground Trails are illustra tive of many an episode at the eastern end of Lake Erie in the days preceding the Civil War. I had the facts of the principal adventures some years ago from the late Mr. Frank Henry of Erie, Pa., who had himself been a participant in more than one worthy enterprise of the Underground Railroad. Sketches based on information supplied by Mr. Henry, and originally written out for the Erie Gazette, are the latter part of the paper as it now stands. The last essay, Niagara and the Poets, is a following of Old Trails chiefly in a literary sense, but it is thought its inclusion here will not be found inappropriate to the general character of the collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
Author: Frank Hayward SeverancePublisher:
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
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Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls
Author: Charles Mason DowPublisher:
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Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada
Author: George McKinnon WrongPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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