Holmes wanted to look at the hotel register to make sure if the man was staying at their hotel. He came to know that he was not. There were other people staying there.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles" which is a crime novel and the main character in the novel is the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
Tecumseh was a tribal leader who thought all Native Americans needed to get together to force US to stop its expansion. Together the Native Americans were strong enough that US would stop to avoid an armed conflict.
President Richard Nixon is the only president to resign from the office and was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. Vice president Gerald R. Ford of Michigan took the office as the new president to complete the remaining 2 1/2 years of Nixon's term.
Here was no profit in it for most northerners and it would provide a way for wage slaves to find opportunities somewhere besides in the north.
They wanted cheap labor and the west would slim the pickings provided by desparation and poverty .
Bulebell ice cream is good