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Beaver Falls

(Encyclopedia) Beaver Falls, city (2020 pop. 8,232), Beaver co., W Pa., on falls of the Beaver River near its junction with the Ohio; settled c.1793,…

Wyoming

Wyoming State Information Capital: Cheyenne Official Name: State of Wyoming Organized as a territory/republic: July 25, 1868 Entered Union (rank): July 10, 1890 (44th state) Present…

Bent, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Bent, Charles, 1799–1847, American frontiersman, b. St. Louis. He entered the fur trade of the Missouri River and became one of the mountain men. His interests turned to the Southwest…

Ashmun, Jehudi

(Encyclopedia) Ashmun, Jehudi, 1794–1828, U.S. agent to Liberia, b. Champlain, N.Y. After entering the Congregationalist ministry and spending a few years in teaching and editorial work, he was sent…

Brantford

(Encyclopedia) Brantford, city, S Ont., Canada, on the Grand River. It is a leading manufacturing city, noted particularly for its large farm implement…

Putumayo

(Encyclopedia) PutumayoPutumayop&oomacr;t&oomacr;mäˈyō [key] or IçáIçáēsäˈ [key], river, c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) long, rising in the Andes, S Colombia, and flowing SE to the Amazon in NW Brazil…

Quapaw

(Encyclopedia) QuapawQuapawkwôˈpô [key], Native North Americans, also called the Arkansas, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American…

scalping

(Encyclopedia) scalping, taking the scalp of an enemy. The custom, comparable to head-hunting, was formerly practiced in Europe and Asia (Herodotus describes its practice by the Scythians, for…

Oto

(Encyclopedia) OtoOtoōˈtō [key], Native North Americans, also called the Otoe, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The…

Chipewyan

(Encyclopedia) ChipewyanChipewyanchĭpˌəwīˈən [key], Native North Americans of the Athabascan branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see also Native American languages). Formerly the largest of the…