The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... Creek with the Republican . Here we picketed our horses , and prepared to camp down , building a magnificent fire of old logs , with a hollow cotton - wood for a chimney . Thompson finally ap- peared to tell us that the others had got ...
... Creek with the Republican . Here we picketed our horses , and prepared to camp down , building a magnificent fire of old logs , with a hollow cotton - wood for a chimney . Thompson finally ap- peared to tell us that the others had got ...
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... Creek , so large that he had to return to his camp , and send back a wagon for him . The journey from Thirty - two Mile Creek to Fort Kearney ( a distance of thirty - five miles ) disclosed to us increasing barrenness in the soil ...
... Creek , so large that he had to return to his camp , and send back a wagon for him . The journey from Thirty - two Mile Creek to Fort Kearney ( a distance of thirty - five miles ) disclosed to us increasing barrenness in the soil ...
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... Creek station , the road continued to run through a country of only less aridity than preceded our entrance to Fort Kearney . The only spots of brightness on the dreary waste of sand and gramma were the crimson flowers of the ground ...
... Creek station , the road continued to run through a country of only less aridity than preceded our entrance to Fort Kearney . The only spots of brightness on the dreary waste of sand and gramma were the crimson flowers of the ground ...
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... Creek , her light fell on a broad encampment of Sioux , silvering the dingy skins and occasional canvas of the smoky ti - pis into something like the Fenimore Cooper romance of Indian life . I could not help thinking that pårt of this ...
... Creek , her light fell on a broad encampment of Sioux , silvering the dingy skins and occasional canvas of the smoky ti - pis into something like the Fenimore Cooper romance of Indian life . I could not help thinking that pårt of this ...
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... Creek Sta- tion , five hundred and thirty - three miles from Atchi- son , and a hundred and twenty from Denver . The station consisted , as usual , of a single house with the company's stables and corral attached , and is situated about ...
... Creek Sta- tion , five hundred and thirty - three miles from Atchi- son , and a hundred and twenty from Denver . The station consisted , as usual , of a single house with the company's stables and corral attached , and is situated about ...
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