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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... mountain- chain of the Continent . The grass around us was long and rich . Prairie- hens abounded in it , seeming almost as tame as barn- yard fowl . They were continually coming to the road and running ahead of the horses , so close to ...
... mountain- chain of the Continent . The grass around us was long and rich . Prairie- hens abounded in it , seeming almost as tame as barn- yard fowl . They were continually coming to the road and running ahead of the horses , so close to ...
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... Mountain snows to the soft current of the Gulf and the mad waves of the Atlantic . We lay half - way between great mysteries , -in the lap of a loneliness as profound as the caves of the Nereids . But this loneliness mellowed instead of ...
... Mountain snows to the soft current of the Gulf and the mad waves of the Atlantic . We lay half - way between great mysteries , -in the lap of a loneliness as profound as the caves of the Nereids . But this loneliness mellowed instead of ...
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... mountain scenery , and , so to speak , strik- ing the resolving chords between the low plains of Kansas and the high plateaus of the Rocky Mountain region , whither we were tending . On our northern THE BUFFALO COUNTRY TO THE GOLD MINES ...
... mountain scenery , and , so to speak , strik- ing the resolving chords between the low plains of Kansas and the high plateaus of the Rocky Mountain region , whither we were tending . On our northern THE BUFFALO COUNTRY TO THE GOLD MINES ...
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... mountain galleries further west . We observed projecting from the side of one of these , the first limestone outcrop we had noticed west of the Missouri River . Just west of Cottonwood , the Platte River is formed by the junction of its ...
... mountain galleries further west . We observed projecting from the side of one of these , the first limestone outcrop we had noticed west of the Missouri River . Just west of Cottonwood , the Platte River is formed by the junction of its ...
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... Mountain snow - peaks . We found it care- fully enshrined , as if it were a Greek god ; for a clear , cold , living fountain may well demand apoth- eosis at the lips which have cooled their fever in it in the midst of the journey beside ...
... Mountain snow - peaks . We found it care- fully enshrined , as if it were a Greek god ; for a clear , cold , living fountain may well demand apoth- eosis at the lips which have cooled their fever in it in the midst of the journey beside ...
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