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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... purpose for him ? I had descended one of these reëntrant draws at imminent peril to my neck , and climbed the other side with a difficulty only con- quered by desperation ; I had made a detour of COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 83.
... purpose for him ? I had descended one of these reëntrant draws at imminent peril to my neck , and climbed the other side with a difficulty only con- quered by desperation ; I had made a detour of COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 83.
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... climbed several of the loftiest and longest hills we had seen since leaving St. Louis . About twenty miles east of the fort , we seemed to reach the top of a new terrace , and thenceforward rode nearly all the way on a level sand ...
... climbed several of the loftiest and longest hills we had seen since leaving St. Louis . About twenty miles east of the fort , we seemed to reach the top of a new terrace , and thenceforward rode nearly all the way on a level sand ...
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... climbed and descended hills , and passed through a series of sand cañons , beginning to assume the typ- ical look of the mountain galleries further west . We observed projecting from the side of one of these , the first limestone ...
... climbed and descended hills , and passed through a series of sand cañons , beginning to assume the typ- ical look of the mountain galleries further west . We observed projecting from the side of one of these , the first limestone ...
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... climbed to the very summit , while the ambu- lance halted for us below . We found the immense stone which formed the capital of the cone bare of soil and vegetation , save in crevices . On all sides it overhung the earth mound on which ...
... climbed to the very summit , while the ambu- lance halted for us below . We found the immense stone which formed the capital of the cone bare of soil and vegetation , save in crevices . On all sides it overhung the earth mound on which ...
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... climbed from Camp Halleck was a mere clean skeleton of the world . Telescopes reveal to us a very similar tract in the moon , and geology takes us back to a time when the earth was all thus . I think that the man who stands where we ...
... climbed from Camp Halleck was a mere clean skeleton of the world . Telescopes reveal to us a very similar tract in the moon , and geology takes us back to a time when the earth was all thus . I think that the man who stands where we ...
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