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Title: Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, George Milroy, 1862- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Acme publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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this is deep water, and only concerns Buffalo in that it vitally concerned her early days. It shouldbe said though, that in the war with Great Britain, in 1812, the Indians fought with the United States forces,^and it is an interesting fact that to-day may often be seen on the streets of Buffalo, peddling sassafras bark orberries, Henry Philips, a Seneca Indian, who is a pensioner of the United States Government as a surviving en-listed soldier of the War of 1812. He is one of the most interesting Indians in America to-day, and throughan interpreter he has told the writer of these lines many anecdotes of that war, of Red Jacket and Cornplanter,whom he knew well, and of Farmers Brother, Tall Chief, and Tom Pollard. Chief Philips is slow to adoptcivilized dress, and at his home on the Cattaraugus Reservation is always seen wearing feathers in his long-black hair, moccasins, and a white mans shirt outside of his pantaloons, which are held up by a leather belt. ILLUSTRATED CITYOFTKELAKESj
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md.^ ^Xs^ ILLUSTRATED -iv^ THE «tUEEN3=«3b- CITY OF THE LAKES. He is an inveterate smoker, and prefers a long-stemmed pipe of liis own manufacture, from the stem of whichdepend beads and colored strings. He is an incorrigible pagan, holding little or no intercourse with the guy-weh-yu— the Christian missionary. What must often be the thoughts of Henry Philips (whose father un-doubtedly had a hand in many a bloody massacre in Western Ncv^ York, and whose mind is stored with tradi-tions of the Niagara frontier), as he walks in Bnfialo under the shadow of huge elevators and smoking steamforges and factories on the banks of Buffalo Creek, whose batswoods his father used to strip for wigwams,and out of whoso trunks made dug-out canoes. History tells of the treaty at Fort Stanwix (Rome) in September, 1784, where the Iroquois chiefs met com-missioners from New York State and from the United States ; how the Indians ceded to the father at Wash-ington all their rights to the land of the fo

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