History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . A general view of the town on April 24, 1889, the second day after the Oklahoma Avenue as it appeared on May 10, 1893, during Governor Nobles BUILDING OF A WESTERN TOWN, GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. iSgo] EVENTS OP HARRISONS TERM 8i all their lands, the Indians were, in the win-ter of 1890, farhine-stricken through failureof Government rations. With little hopeof justice or revenge in their own strength,the aggrieved savages sought supernaturalsolace. The so-called Messiah Crazeseized upon Sioux,
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . A general view of the town on April 24, 1889, the second day after the Oklahoma Avenue as it appeared on May 10, 1893, during Governor Nobles BUILDING OF A WESTERN TOWN, GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. iSgo] EVENTS OP HARRISONS TERM 8i all their lands, the Indians were, in the win-ter of 1890, farhine-stricken through failureof Government rations. With little hopeof justice or revenge in their own strength,the aggrieved savages sought supernaturalsolace. The so-called Messiah Crazeseized upon Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahoes,Osages, Missouris, and Seminoles. Ordi-narily at feud with one another, these tribesall now united in ghost dances, lookingfor the Great Spirit or his Representativeto appear with a high hand and an out-stretched arm to bury the whites and theirworks deep underground, when the prairieshould once more thunder with the gallopof buffalo and wild horses. Southern ne-groes caught the infection. Even the scat-tered Aztecs of Mexico gathered aroundthe ruins of their ancient temple at Cholulaand waited a Messiah who should pourfloods of lava from Po
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