. An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing ... biographical mention ... of its pioneers and prominent citizens. hed as we have be-fore remarked, by hardihood and the spirit ofadventure, was the first to conceive the projectof crossing the breadth of the North AmericanContinent from the extreme white settlementsto the shores of the Pacific, and to follow it upby efforts for its accomplishment. Carversfather was an English officer in the time ofWilliam and Mary, who came over to the thencolony of Connecticut, where, in 1732, his sonwas born. The son, in early manhood, follow-in
. An illustrated history of the state of Montana, containing ... biographical mention ... of its pioneers and prominent citizens. hed as we have be-fore remarked, by hardihood and the spirit ofadventure, was the first to conceive the projectof crossing the breadth of the North AmericanContinent from the extreme white settlementsto the shores of the Pacific, and to follow it upby efforts for its accomplishment. Carversfather was an English officer in the time ofWilliam and Mary, who came over to the thencolony of Connecticut, where, in 1732, his sonwas born. The son, in early manhood, follow-ing his own inclinations, obtained an ensignscommission in a provincial regiment during thewar between France and England, in which thecolonies bore an honorable part, and which wasterminated by the peace of 1763, and the ces-sion of the French province of Canada to GreatBritain. Carver narrowly escaped massacre atFort William Henry; and the peace found himcaptain of a company. The close of the warhaving laid open to the enterprising spirit ofthe colonists the reirions of the northwest. ►Disraelis Curiosities of
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