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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... divide . Just beyond the breakfast - place we entered Ne- braska . The country now became wilder and some- what more sterile . The signs of human occupation disappeared entirely , and with them the prairie - chick- ens became less and ...
... divide . Just beyond the breakfast - place we entered Ne- braska . The country now became wilder and some- what more sterile . The signs of human occupation disappeared entirely , and with them the prairie - chick- ens became less and ...
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... , apparently from a high divide , not a mile be- yond our leaders , a column of lightning sized and shaped like the trunk of a tall pine . Straight and COMSTOCKR IP W SILINVIL swift , but with a more 20 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... , apparently from a high divide , not a mile be- yond our leaders , a column of lightning sized and shaped like the trunk of a tall pine . Straight and COMSTOCKR IP W SILINVIL swift , but with a more 20 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... sunny sides of all the divides ; they checkered the rich green of the ravines with delicious contrasts ; and every now and then , as the grass waved , glowed upon us out of their secret nurseries among the 34 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... sunny sides of all the divides ; they checkered the rich green of the ravines with delicious contrasts ; and every now and then , as the grass waved , glowed upon us out of their secret nurseries among the 34 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... dividing the corolla into segments , upon the middle of each of the petals . Another plant , which seemed to me a ... divides . " " But the two most charming flowers of the region , the one for its perfume , the other for its color ...
... dividing the corolla into segments , upon the middle of each of the petals . Another plant , which seemed to me a ... divides . " " But the two most charming flowers of the region , the one for its perfume , the other for its color ...
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... divide and the next further south , when we saw our first antelope . He was a mere glanc- ing spot on the sunny side of a slope two miles off , and disappeared too soon to be resolved by the field - glass . From that time forward we ...
... divide and the next further south , when we saw our first antelope . He was a mere glanc- ing spot on the sunny side of a slope two miles off , and disappeared too soon to be resolved by the field - glass . From that time forward we ...
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