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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... grass running to the horizon , everywhere level like the sea , as he finds in Illinois . The great sedimentary deposits which form the prairies proper , were laid in a period of long quiet , and denuded of their superadjacent water by a ...
... grass running to the horizon , everywhere level like the sea , as he finds in Illinois . The great sedimentary deposits which form the prairies proper , were laid in a period of long quiet , and denuded of their superadjacent water by a ...
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... them along the road , I was unable to start a single one in the grass . This I found to be the ordinary case at this hour of the morning and season of the year . They wait till the sun is high and warm before THE SETTING OUT . 15.
... them along the road , I was unable to start a single one in the grass . This I found to be the ordinary case at this hour of the morning and season of the year . They wait till the sun is high and warm before THE SETTING OUT . 15.
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... grass of the breezy 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 ...
... grass of the breezy 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 ...
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... grass lay in one embrace of topaz fire , with the colossal piles of clefted cloud out of which the deluge was coming , -earth and heaven illumined with a brightness surpassing the most cloudless noon : Suddenly there appeared before us ...
... grass lay in one embrace of topaz fire , with the colossal piles of clefted cloud out of which the deluge was coming , -earth and heaven illumined with a brightness surpassing the most cloudless noon : Suddenly there appeared before us ...
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... grass cures on the ground , and makes inexhaustible winter feed , without the trouble of mowing and stacking . The snows never last long enough to starve out the herds left running at large . They sleep , as well as graze , on the open ...
... grass cures on the ground , and makes inexhaustible winter feed , without the trouble of mowing and stacking . The snows never last long enough to starve out the herds left running at large . They sleep , as well as graze , on the open ...
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