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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... close at hand for use when we had , as sometimes happened , to ease the horses over a hard piece of road by walking ourselves . The Overland Mail vehicle is of that description known as the Concord wagon , a stout oblong box on springs ...
... close at hand for use when we had , as sometimes happened , to ease the horses over a hard piece of road by walking ourselves . The Overland Mail vehicle is of that description known as the Concord wagon , a stout oblong box on springs ...
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... close to us , in- deed , that , had we chosen , we might have bagged the whole party's supper from the wagon as we rode . The common plover were only less plenty , dodging about in the grass with their peculiar culprit manner as we ...
... close to us , in- deed , that , had we chosen , we might have bagged the whole party's supper from the wagon as we rode . The common plover were only less plenty , dodging about in the grass with their peculiar culprit manner as we ...
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... close as to impede our animals . In spite of the recent rain - storm , the ground , matted with grass - roots , bore our hoofs and wheels as firmly as a trotting - course . Everybody was in high spirits . To men just out of the hot ...
... close as to impede our animals . In spite of the recent rain - storm , the ground , matted with grass - roots , bore our hoofs and wheels as firmly as a trotting - course . Everybody was in high spirits . To men just out of the hot ...
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... close to the ground , and to unscientific eyes seems quite as closely connected with the mallows . It appears in patches varying from a few feet to several rods in circuit , and wherever these occur , the ground is one gorgeous mass of ...
... close to the ground , and to unscientific eyes seems quite as closely connected with the mallows . It appears in patches varying from a few feet to several rods in circuit , and wherever these occur , the ground is one gorgeous mass of ...
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... close as before , and then floated away , ' on a line at right angles to their former retreat , tempting him with the delusion that he might head them off . As often as he turned , they repeated these tactics , until at last he stopped ...
... close as before , and then floated away , ' on a line at right angles to their former retreat , tempting him with the delusion that he might head them off . As often as he turned , they repeated these tactics , until at last he stopped ...
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