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The hydrological engineers have decided the Cosumnes is the only large branch that will bear fruit; the chinook had better choose their homelands wisely.
Coyote Crossing 2009
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Cosumnes - which I crossed on this trip, the Mokelumne appealed to me the most.
A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Thomas Dykes Beasley
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They had proposed to begin a ranch on my land on the Cosumnes, but afterward changed their minds, and went out with Rucker.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Having finished our work on the Cosumnes, we proceeded to Sacramento, where Captain Sutter employed us to connect the survey of Sacramento City, made by Lieutenant W.rner, and that of Sutterville, three miles below, which was then being surveyed by Lieutenant J.W. Davidson, of the First Dragoons.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Cosumnes, and laid down a line four miles south, perpendicular to the general direction of the stream; then, surveying up the stream, we marked each mile so as to admit of a subdivision of one mile by four.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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This cost us nearly a day of delay; but, when damages were repaired, we harnessed up again, and reached the crossing of the Cosumnes, where our survey was to begin.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Powers [Footnote: Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. III, p. 332.] says that among the Nishmams, a tribe living on -- the slopes of the Sierra Nevada between the Yuba and Cosumnes rivers, a game of dice is played by men or women, two, three or four together.
Indian Games : an historical research Andrew McFarland Davis
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Cosumnes, south side, and between the San Joaquin River and Sierra
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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In 1826 there was an expedition against the Cosumnes, in which forty Indians were killed, a ranchería destroyed, and forty captives taken.
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California George Wharton James 1890
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The Talatui mentioned by Hale [68] as on the Kassima (Cosumnes) River belong to the above family.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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