Ralph K. Andrist > Quotes

“Sergeant Charles Floyd”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Lewis and Clark

“Fort Mandan,”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Lewis and Clark

“November 20. Two rows of four cabins”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Lewis and Clark

“being forced from their homeland. Other tribes accepted payment for their lands and signed new treaties; at least some of the “chiefs” who agreed were bribed ringers who had no real tribal authority. Whether it required blood, money, or threats, Jackson and his supporters were determined to claim the frontier for themselves. The”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Jackson

“wanted more gunpowder and bullets and “a little Milk of the Great Father”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Lewis and Clark

“pirogues,”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Lewis and Clark

“As Jackson put it to Congress in his next and last annual message, “There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure peace . . . it must be known that we are at all times, ready for war.” A”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Jackson

“A large section of land in the northwestern corner of Tennessee sank below the level of the Mississippi, and for hours, the river below New Madrid ran backward”
― Ralph K. Andrist, Life on the Mississippi