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Osage   Listen
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Osage  n.  A tributary of the Missouri River.
Synonyms: Osage River.






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"Osage" Quotes from Famous Books



... industrial life. It is expected the report of this committee will be available for later congressional action. Meantime, the requirement that the Secretary of the Interior should make certain leases of land belonging to the Osage Indians, in accordance with the act of March 3, 1921, should be repealed. The authority to lease should be discretionary, in order that the property of the Indians way not be wasted and the public suffer a future lack ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... lake of Maracaybo, M. Depons reckoned that one million two hundred thousand oxen, one hundred and eighty thousand horses, and ninety thousand mules, wandered at large. In some parts of the valley of the Mississippi, especially in the country of the Osage Indians, wild horses are ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 531, Saturday, January 28, 1832. • Various

... onward, onward towards the setting sun. Red wars, Punic faith, broken treaties, year after year, thinned their ranks. Still, disdaining to live near their white conquerors, they pushed on, fighting their way through tribes of their own race and colour thrice their numbers! The forks of the Osage became their latest resting-place. Here the usurper promised to guarantee them a home, to be theirs to all time. The concession came too late. War and wandering had grown to be part of their natures; and ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

... by John Joseph Mathews (University of Chicago Press, 1945) is set in the blackjack country of eastern Oklahoma. This Oxford scholar of Osage blood built his ranch house around a fireplace, flanked by shelves of books. His observations are of the outside, but they are informed by reflections made beside a fire. They are not bookish at all, but the spirits of great writers ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... Stranger Creek, on the banks of the Wakarusa, and on the Great Divide separating the Osage from the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various



Words linked to "Osage" :   Show Me State, Missouri, river, Dhegiha, osage orange



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