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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... feet , where they might be easy of access in any of those frequent cases of semi - starvation which occur at the ... hundred miles made some changes expedient in our attire . We doffed our sacks , and rode in our hunting - shirts ; we ...
... feet , where they might be easy of access in any of those frequent cases of semi - starvation which occur at the ... hundred miles made some changes expedient in our attire . We doffed our sacks , and rode in our hunting - shirts ; we ...
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... feet . When the fresh team started out with a plunge , and the fresh night - breath of the Plains began fanning my ... hundred and eleven miles from Atchison , and the last station this side of Nebraska . The stations on the Overland ...
... feet . When the fresh team started out with a plunge , and the fresh night - breath of the Plains began fanning my ... hundred and eleven miles from Atchison , and the last station this side of Nebraska . The stations on the Overland ...
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... hundred and thirty miles from Atchison , the stage stopped for dinner about noon ; but our recollections of a ... feet , we lunched , alfresco , under lee of the station - barn , on pilot - bread , sardines , and canned peaches . Our ...
... hundred and thirty miles from Atchison , the stage stopped for dinner about noon ; but our recollections of a ... feet , we lunched , alfresco , under lee of the station - barn , on pilot - bread , sardines , and canned peaches . Our ...
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... foot of the ... hundred and fifty rods closer . Then they began to paw un- easily , lash their sides , and stretch their necks with unequivocal earnestness . The buggy still kept right behind us , and we walked our horses about fifty feet ...
... foot of the ... hundred and fifty rods closer . Then they began to paw un- easily , lash their sides , and stretch their necks with unequivocal earnestness . The buggy still kept right behind us , and we walked our horses about fifty feet ...
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... hundred and fifty yards from them when the stampede became general . This was altogether too far for effective ... feet down its almost perpendicular sides with as little hesitation . as we would leap a ditch ; but no such ill luck ...
... hundred and fifty yards from them when the stampede became general . This was altogether too far for effective ... feet down its almost perpendicular sides with as little hesitation . as we would leap a ditch ; but no such ill luck ...
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