It was not until the 1790s that the Big Osage pressed the settlement harder ; they conducted repeated raids and killed some settlers.

While at one point Spanish administrators wanted to attack the Big Osage, there were not sufficient French Canadian settlers to recruit for a militia to do so.

In 1794 Carondelet, the Spanish governor at New Orleans, appointed the Chouteau brothers of St. Louis to have exclusive trading privileges with the Big Osage.

They built a fort and trading post on the Osage River in Big Osage territory.

Chouteau convinced the Osage tribe, under the leadership of Cashesgra (" Big Trek "), to migrate into Indian Territory near the trading post, and ensured the survival of the business.

At the beginning of this story, Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, and move the family, via covered wagon to the Indian Territory near Independence, Kansas, as there were widely circulating stories that the land ( technically still under Osage ownership ) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently.

Mosley arrived with a companion surnamed Moxley, and the two built a trading " ranche " near the intersection of the Osage Trail and the Big Arkansas River, 14 miles northwest of the present location of Wichita.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

When Linda Kay had put up her breakfast dishes and mopped her linoleum rugs, she would go to the Big House.

but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.

Later it developed that the Soviets had a very different interpretation of democracy, which will be discussed later, and their judgment never told them that the Big Three should unite in establishing democratic conditions, as we understand them, within their zone of influence.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

* 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14. 5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13. 76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

Locals had been calling the unseen track-maker " Big Foot " since the late summer, which Humboldt Times columnist Andrew Genzoli shortened to " Bigfoot " in his article.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.

It was also reported that federal safety authorities had questioned the design of the handrails and had recommended crash-testing them before they were originally installed, but these concerns were dismissed by Big Dig project managers at the time.

In the first season of most series of Big Brother, the house that the housemates had to live in was very basic.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara.

Big industrial enterprises will be transformed by men in big associations in which everyone will work and enjoy the product of their work.

On July 14, 1999, the three men lost their lives when the Lampson " Big Blue " crane, one of the largest in the world, collapsed while trying to lift a 400 ton right field roof panel.

Meanwhile, on Terrill's orders, Leech and his men chase Hannassey's cattle away from the Big Muddy.

The Robe ends with " the Big Fisherman " as a nickname for Peter ; Jesus called him " the fisher of men " and " the Rock ".

In both the Frog Lake Massacre and the Siege of Fort Battleford, small dissident groups of Cree men revolted against the authority of Big Bear and Poundmaker.

Since 1951, men ’ s teams have captured 26 Big State and Heart of Texas conference championships and made 16 NAIA National Tournament appearances.

Trammell's force, augmented by several of the men from The Cabins, pursed and engaged the Ioway at a place called Battle Creek, killing several Native Americans including Big Neck's brother, sister-in-law, and their child.

British pilots operating from a Royal Air Force base in Texas crashed into White Rock Mountain and Big Mountain, killing four crew men.

It was played by both men while they toured together from 1979 – 1982 in the musical review The Big Broadcast of 1944.

* Big Men's Club – another term used to define clubs and organizations for gay and bisexual men and their male admirers

In the 1990s, the men worked on the Berenstain Bears " Big Chapter Book " series ( published under the names Stan and Jan Berenstain ).

Miller is referenced in Brautigan's A Confederate General at Big Sur, in which a pair of young men attempt the idyllic Big Sur life in small shacks and are variously plagued by flies, low ceilings, visiting businessmen with nervous breakdowns, and 2, 452 tiny frogs whose loud singing keeps everyone awake.

Since entering the Big Ten in 1950, Michigan State has won 14 men ’ s team titles ( 1951 – 1953, 1955 – 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1970 and 1971 ).

In 1923, there were 607 men working at Seven Sisters, producing from the Furnace Four Feet, Brass and Nine Feet Big Vein seams.

The two gangs engage in a firefight, but Harley gains the upper hand when Big Barda ( who was secretly allied with her at the time ) interrupts the conflict and captures the Riddler and his men.

* September 25, 1868: A group of men known as the Big Four purchase the Southern Pacific.

A column of troops under his command arrived shortly after the Battle of Little Big Horn and discovered the bodies of Custer's men.

Both of his world title reigns were represented by the Big Gold Belt: Benoit is one of four men to have held the Big Gold Belt in both WCW and WWE, alongside Bill Goldberg, Booker T and Big Show.

After remaining idle for more than two weeks on Goose Creek, on July 6, 1876 General George Crook ordered Lt. Frederick W. Sibley to take 25 men and two scouts, Big Bat Pourier and Frank Grouard, and make a reconnaissance to the north to locate the hostile Indian forces.