Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore.
It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.
They are developed in Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by their mammalian remains.
Defn: A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe andNorthwestern America.
Defn: Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States andnorthwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers.
Defn: A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States.
Defn: The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany.
Such sights and sounds are a blessed relief to the tourist, who for several days has witnessed nothing but the boundless plains and scanty population ofnorthwestern Canada.
As for me, I was well content, even to be hustled and jostled and elbow-punched by this horde of scraggly-bearded men of the northwestern wilderness.
There began my first experience in riding over the fallen timber, which obstructs all the northwestern Rocky Mountains.
The other was at Green Bay, an immense lake in itself, jutting out from the northwestern extremity of Lake Michigan.
On the 8th of August the fleet passed Cape Finisterre, the extreme northwestern point of Spain.
The immense sheet of water, at the northwestern extremity of Lake Michigan, called Green Bay, is one hundred miles long by twenty or thirty broad.
At the extreme northwestern extremity of Lake Huron, near the point where the lake receives the waters of Lakes Michigan and Superior, there was a large island, whose swelling hills were crowned with a dense forest.
It still required a sail of five days before they reached the Port de Paix, on the northwestern extremity of the island.
Within a few weeks an army of Indians, made up of bands from many of the northwestern tribes and numbering nearly six hundred warriors, began its march from Chillicothe.
Garnett was assigned by Lee to the command of the Confederate troops of Northwestern Virginia.
Tradition says he built a cabin (or study-house) in the northwestern angle of the graveyard, and was buried beneath its floor, being the first subject of interment.
William Graham commanding, against a large body of Tories in the northwestern section of South Carolina.
The sun had just set and the northwestern sky was all a blaze of golden brightness, streaked with long pink and rosy streamers of cloud, from which the evening light, neither glaring nor dim, flooded through the big northwestern windows.
It is not necessary to follow the varying fortunes of the few, small missions in the Northwestern wilderness, included then within the vast territory called Oregon.
He travelled from one to another of the Northwesternmissions and even to Santa Clara, California, but he is known best and loved most as the Apostle of the Selish at St. Mary's.
Evermann, A Reconnoissance of the Streams and Lakes of Western Montana and Northwestern Wyoming, in Bull.
The fate of the tribes of the Northwestern Territory hung upon the decision of the council.
It stood scarce ten miles from the scene of Kate Merriweather's abduction, a cabin memorable in the annals of the Northwestern Territory, for beyond its threshold the darkest treacheries of the times had been plotted.
The Indians were beginning to exhibit signs of alarm--signs first exhibited at the British posts in the "Northwestern Territory," where the powers and generalship of Wayne were known and acknowledged.
Wolf Cap and Harvey Catlett would have given much for that man's scalp, for at the time of which we write he was the dread of every woman and child in the Northwestern Territory.
My brethren, to-morrow we march forth to meet this scourge of the northwestern territory.
After lunch, Houston started forth in search of the city office of The Northwestern Mining, Land and Investment Company, which he found without difficulty.
But, most humiliating of all, the British maintained their military posts within the northwestern territory ceded to the United States, and Congress could only request them to retire.
Congress, indeed, began to raise troops but did not dare to admit its purpose and offered as a pretext an expedition against the Northwestern Indians.
A little hard white cloud, that looked like a hundred fleeces of wool rolled into one, was climbing rapidly along up the northwestern ridge, that ascended to the lonely top of Great Haystack.
The Ephrata of the present day, numbering possibly three thousand inhabitants, is situated at the foot of the gentle northwestern slope of the Ephrata Mountains.
This was Walpi, and at the period referred to it was situated on the terrace below the site of the present town, near the northwestern base of the mesa proper.
At the northwestern corner, however, there still remain well-made adobe walls, the clay having been intermixed with straw.
Prominent above all these mounds, however, was the pinnacle of rock on the northwestern corner, rising abruptly from the remainder of the ruin, easily approached from the west and sloping more gradually to the south.
The northwestern half clung to the ancient faith; the southeastern half, including most of the large cities where Wycliffe's doctrines had formerly prevailed was favorable to the Reformation.
The main body of the English people did not originate in Britain, but in Northwestern Germany.
A part of what is now the London andNorthwestern Railway.
Northern nurserymen are now disseminating promising varieties of pecans from what has come to be known as the "Indiana district," which includes the southwestern part of that state, northwestern Kentucky and southwestern Illinois.
This inclined many of the Moslem princes, realizing their own helplessness, to invite a newly-risen Mohammedan power in northwestern Africa to come to their aid.
Sidenote: Castilian activities in northwestern Africa and the Canary Islands.
In northwestern Africa the Arabs had encountered the Berbers, who had submitted only after opposing a determined resistance.
He took refuge successively in Egypt and northwestern Africa, and in 755 came to Spain with the object of establishing himself there.
Even the Moslem province innorthwestern Africa fell under his sway.
The pirates of the Berber, or Barbary, Coast, as the lands in northwestern Africa are often called, seemed to be more than ever audacious in the early years of the reign of Charles.
Since privilege was the general rule, the law in northwestern Spain was very far from being uniform.
The state was divided into provinces, two of which were in northern Africa,--Egypt and northwestern Africa.
The security of the American route was not the principal motive of Castilian interest at that time in northwestern Africa.
