Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in the journals. For example: Fight. All instances of the use of the word fight will show up on the results page.
Using an asterisk (*) will increase the odds of finding the results you are seeking. For example: Fight*. The search results will display every instance of fight, fights, fighting, etc. More than one wildcard may be used. For example: *ricar*. This search will return most references to the Aricara tribe, including Ricara, Ricares, Aricaris, Ricaries, Ricaree, Ricareis, and Ricarra. Using a question mark (?) instead of an asterisk (*) will allow you to search for a single character. For example, r?n will find all instances of ran and run, but will not find rain or ruin.
Searches are not case sensitive. For example: george will come up with the same results as George.
Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: "This white pudding we all esteem".
Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
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Year, Month, & Day | Single day |
Year & Month | Whole month |
Year | Whole year |
Month & Day | 1600-#-# to 2100-#-# |
Month | 1600-#-1 to 2100-#-31 |
Day | 1600-01-# to 2100-12-# |
Title | Date (not before) | Date (not after) |
Diderot (Dennis Diderot) | 1849 | 1892 |
A Defence of the Christian Doctrines of the Society of Friends | 1838 | 1892 |
Cultural Geography Scrapbook | ||
Comparison between Homer's Iliad | 1855 | 1892 |
"Church" article | 1850 | 1892 |
Chronological | 1854 | 1860 |
Christopher under Canvass | 1849 | 1892 |
The celebrated old German poem | 1854 | 1892 |
Carlyle's words | 1888 | 1891 |
Bunsen | 1854 | 1892 |
British in China | 1855 | 1892 |
Books of WW | 1890 | 1892 |
Barthold Niebuhr | 1854 | 1892 |
Author of the Neibelungen Leid | 1838 | 1892 |
Assyria & Egypt | 1855 | 1860 |
Ascent of Mount Popocatapetl | 1854 | 1892 |
Anacreon's Midnight Visitor | 1847 | 1891 |
America has been called | 1850 | 1859 |
Africa (The Equator | 1850 | 1856 |
Æschuylus | 1851 | 1892 |
Addison's Ode to Deity | 1838 | 1892 |
Abraham Lincoln | 1865 | 1865 |
73 Specimen Days | 1884 | 1892 |
1855—I have looked over Gerald Massey's Poems | 1855 | 1892 |
1854 Alexander Smith's poems | 1854 | 1892 |
(Independent & Chinese) | 1850 | 1860 |