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" In this month we began to make sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made... "
Annual Reports - Page 109
1896
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A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives, Or the ..., Volume 2

Archibald Loudon - Indian captivities - 1808 - 320 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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A Winter in the West, Volume 1

Charles Fenno Hoffman - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 354 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm-bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down ; and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree ; and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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A Winter in the Far West

Charles Fenno Hoffman - Northwest, Old - 1835 - 704 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm-bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after 6nding a tree that would do, cut it down ; and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree ; and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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A Winter in the West, Volume 1

Charles Fenno Hoffman - History - 1835 - 358 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm-bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down ; and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree ; and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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Indian Captivities, Being a Collection of the Most Remarkable Narratives of ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1839 - 382 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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Events in Indian History: Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the ...

James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 788 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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Tragedies of the Wilderness: Or, True and Authentic Narratives of Captives ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1841 - 374 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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Incidents of Border Life: Illustrative of the Times and Condition of the ...

Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1841 - 550 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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Mirror of Olden Time Border Life: Embracing a History of the Discovery of ...

Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1849 - 774 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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Indian Wars of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

John Frost - Indian captivities - 1852 - 708 pages
...sugar. As some of the elm bark will strip at this season, the squaws, after finding a tree that would do, cut it down, and with a crooked stick, broad and sharp at the end, took the bark off the tree, and of this bark made vessels in a curious manner, that would hold about...
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