Book/Printed Material Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.
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Image 1 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 2 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. Go[yiight)^ CjOEffilGHT DEPOSIT,- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 3 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 4 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 5 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. RECOLLECTIONS AND OPINIONS OLD PIONEER. BY PETER H. BURNETT, THE FIRST GOVEKNOB OF THE 8TATK OF CALIFORNIA. 5^/31 r-w NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STEEET. 1880....- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 6 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 7 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. PKEFACE. Ix tlie month of October, 18G0, I began to write out my recollections and opinions, intending to leave the manuscript to my children, as I thought that a true ac- count...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 8 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. Vi PREFACE. perience had been so varied, that the task grew upon my hands as I proceeded, and has swollen into a volume almost double the size first anticipated. Until the month...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 9 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. PREFACE. vii pole before I attained the age of sixty, I should have been sti ongly tempted to organize a party of emigrants for that distant region. While the settlement of a...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 10 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 11 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. CONTEJ^TS. CHAPTER I. Ancestry The Burnets The Hardemans. Removals To the Farm To Missouri. Mode of Living Manners and Customs. Bee-Hunt Fisticuff Fights Lazy Bill. Prairies Their Ori- gin, Return to Tennessee...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 12 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. X CONTENTS. CHAPTER III. PAGE Determine to go to Oregon Arrive at the Rendezvous Remarks on the Nature of the Trip. Start from the Rendezvous Kill our First Buffalo Kill our First...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 13 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. CONTENTS. xi FA6B Ardent Spirits. Treaty of June 15, 1846— Policy of the Hud- son s Bay Company H. A. G. Lee Indian Character. Mas- sacre of Dr. Whitman and Others Indian...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 14 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. xii CONTENTS. PAGE US all Eeturn to Sacramento City Its Rapid Improvement James S. Thomas. Appointed to a Seat in the Superior Tri- bunal Sickness of one of my Daughters Remove to...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 15 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. CONTENTS. xiii PAGE Main Points to consider in making Loans Devices to obtain Credit. A Good Banker may often save iiis Customers from Losses against their Will Incidents of the Suspension of...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 16 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer.- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 17 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY THE BUKKETS THE HAEDEMANS. I AM the eldest son of George and Dorothy Burnet, and was born in Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 1807. ]VIy father was born in Pittsylvania...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 18 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 2 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD TIONEER. tion of Tennessee. He was a farmer and made a for- tune, living to the age of seventy-two. He reared eight sons and three daughters Nicholas...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 19 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. ANCESTRY. 3 There was a great difference between my father s and mother s families. The Hardemans were fond of pleasure, and were generally extravagant when young. Most of them, especially my...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 20 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. between cousins, especially in the Perkins family, who were related through my grandmother Hardeman, whose maiden name was Perkins. The Pei kins family came from North Carolina....- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 21 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. ANCESTRY. 5 member my father often referred to this relative as a fit example for me to follow. My father was very industrious, understood his trade as a carpenter well, and made...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 22 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 6 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. fai raer, and I am a banker. Brother Thomas is now living with his second wife. Glen and mwelf married r sisters, the only daughters of...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 23 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. REMOVALS. 7 circumstance well calculated, in its nature, to make a lasting impression. About 1811 he moved upon a farm in Williamson County, about four miles south of Frank- lin, and on...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 24 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 8 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. Th^ first steamboats I ever saw were at Franklin in 1820. They were the first steamers on the Missouri River, with one exception. A short time...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 25 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. REMOVALS. 9 stream, pulling upon a long rope attached to the boat, and cutting down the willows along the bank in many places, so as to open a foot-path. The water was...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 26 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 10 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. keep them out, each of the four legs was put into a small, hollow, square block of wood, filled with tar. This Stygian pool these insignificant...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 27 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. MODE OF LIVING. H substitute for coffee, we often used rye or corn meal parched and instead of store tea we used the root of the sassafras. Our clothing was homespun, made...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 28 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. J 12 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. consisting of two wooden rollers, three quarters of an inch in diameter and a foot long, to one of which a crank and handle were...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 29 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. MODE OF LIVING. 13 puncheon floor Avith ease and grace, and was amply able, I found to my sorroAV, to tire me out for the next day I was so sore that...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 30 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 14 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. food (as the corn from which the bread was made was often frost-bitten), and the decay of such masses of timber as were left dead in...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 31 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 15 and wild turkey, the noblest game -fowl among them all. For some years no tame turkeys were raised, as the wild Avere abundant and just as good. Domestica-...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 32 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 16 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. was very wild, from the high head he held), and deter- mined that I would, as requested, shoot him in the head; but, when I endeavored...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 33 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. BEE-HUNT. 17 BEE-HUNT FISTICUFF FIGHTS LAZY BILL. Before I went to live with Major Smith, a circum- stance occurred that deeply distressed our family. In the fall of 1823 I went in...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 34 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 18 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. into the timber. The fire extended into the thick under- brush that skirted the prairie, and cooked the ripe sum- mer grapes on the vines that...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 35 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. FISTICUFF FIGHTS. 19 curacy) were over, some bully would mount a stump, imitate the clapping and crowing of a cock, and declare aloud that he could whip any man in that crowd...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 36 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 20 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. called lazy Bill. He did very little work, and yet managed well, had a good farm, made a good living, and was a good stock-raiser. Among...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 37 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. PRAIRIES. 21 position, and studied English grammar so as to be able to parse and punctuate with tolerable accuracy. This was the sum total of my school education. PEAIRIES THEIR ORIGIN. Much...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 38 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 22 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. early fall, so as to force the game into the timber for food. Some have supposed that the origin of the prairies was due to droiight....- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 39 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. RETURN TO TENNESSEE. 23 dergrowth in those States, it was mostly the cane, which is an evergreen and will not burn in a forest, though it grows as thick as hemp. On...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880
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Image 40 of Recollections and opinions of an old pioneer. 24 RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD TIONEER. twenty-six dollars in money and my mother furnished me with a good suit of jeans. We usually traveled about thirty-three miles a day. My young horse...- Contributor: Burnett, Peter H. (Peter Hardeman) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1880